Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia

The fascination with human spirituality guided Marguerite Yourcenar in the incessant search for the depths of the soul and in the desire for an asceticism that will allow man to rise to levels of knowledge and communion with the elements, inaccessible to those who lack self-reflexion. It is through...

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Main Author: José Guimarães
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Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2020-05-01
Series:Carnets
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/11999
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description The fascination with human spirituality guided Marguerite Yourcenar in the incessant search for the depths of the soul and in the desire for an asceticism that will allow man to rise to levels of knowledge and communion with the elements, inaccessible to those who lack self-reflexion. It is through alchemy, linked to the transcendent and the practice of medicine, connected to the human immanent that his hero Zénon gives a direct testimony, to the reader of L’Œuvre au Noir, of the painful, troubled and dangerous path that is the touchstone in the elevation of Humanity to a communion with the Universe. This journey made up of a mixture of transcendent and immanent is the object of this study.
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Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
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Yourcenar (Marguerite)
20th century French literature
16th century
alchemy
epidemic
fire
title Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
title_full Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
title_fullStr Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
title_full_unstemmed Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
title_short Marguerite Yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
title_sort marguerite yourcenar entre a pandemia e a alquimia
topic Yourcenar (Marguerite)
20th century French literature
16th century
alchemy
epidemic
fire
url https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/11999
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