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Le Clézio’s Spiritual Quest

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
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ISBN/EAN: 9781433119026
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 110
Format (T/L/B): 23.0 x 15.0 cm
Einband: Gebunden

Beschreibung

is the first English language book to address the development of this Nobel Prize winner’s spiritual ideas and the first book in any language to focus on his abiding interest in the philosophy of Parmenides, Sufism, and Meso-American religion. explains many puzzling features of his work from this philosophical perspective, including the relative absence of dialogue in his novels and short stories, his portrayals of mystical experiences, his intensely poetic prose, his treatment of time as the repetition of history, and his struggles to develop a persuasive ethical system. Le Clézio is not merely postcolonial, he creates a new kind of spiritual understanding of the cosmos by drawing on sources that have little connection to the main religious and spiritual traditions of the Western and Eastern worlds. offers an important supplement to French studies of his work, which have explored his works in the context of his French sources. It concludes with a consideration of artistic dilemmas posed by this Nobel Prize-winning author, whose experimental fiction merges poetry, essay, fiction, and philosophy in ways that are enlightening, fresh, and yet often challenging to read. This book guides undergraduate and graduate students of French literature as well as scholars of literature and contemporary ideas to reflect on Le Clézio as a representation of a new direction in philosophical and spiritual voyaging because of his remarkable independence from many contemporary debates and his choice to seek new foundations for human thought in dead religions and what many have considered marginal philosophical and religious traditions.

Autorenportrait

Thomas Trzyna studied philosophy with Richard Popkin and Herbert Marcuse at the University of California, San Diego; he received his B.A. from the University of California (Berkeley) and his M.A. and his PhD in English at the University of Washington. Formerly English professor at The Ohio State University, he teaches literature, comparative religion, and philosophy at Seattle Pacific University. Among his recent books are the novel and , a national book club selection.

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