The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience. Particularities and Interpretations

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Silence as a modality of mystical experience in the work of Sylvie Germain

Silvia Rybárová
Rok vydání: 2021

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9997-2021-8
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Abstrakt

The article deals with the issue of silence in the thinking and work of the contemporary French author Sylvie Germain. The starting point for deliberation is the author’s essay Acte de silence (2011), in which silence is conceived both as a manifestation of God’s discreet appearance and as an act of humility and patience of man. The presence of silence seems to be a necessary condition for mystical experience. Silence understood in this way is the subject of the analysis in a selected passage from Germain’s novel L’Enfant Méduse (1991), which suggests some specific features of the author’s poetics of the transcendent, also present in her later novel work.

Klíčová slova

Silence. Mystical experience. Patience. Act of man.

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