Expériences du sacré et dé-figurations du Christ. Lectures croisées : de Bataille à Artaud, Beckett et Pasolini

Examining the modalities of the sacred’s presence in contemporary writings, born of the era of the “death of God” (Nietzsche) and a century of “dechristianization” (Delumeau), requires a reflection rooted in experiences that call everything into question, including the foundations of the Christian religion. Within the framework of representing these profoundly moving experiences, how then can we explain the insistent emergence of the image of Christ, a figure that haunts the imagination of writers of the last century and embodies the supreme Christian manifestation of the sacred? These questions guide a comparative reading which, drawing on Bataille’s thought, offers a journey through the works of Artaud, Beckett, and Pasolini, aiming to explore the ambivalent nature of these profound experiences and to examine the work of defiguring the image of Christ that they entail.

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