UNE CÉCITÉ RÉVÉLATRICE D’UNE SOLITUDE BIENFAITRICE
A BLINDNESS REVEALING A BENEFICIAL LONELINESS

Summary/Abstract: Loneliness can resonate within us as a synonym of wandering, boredom, and therefore be a word filled with a pejorative impression. However, Belgian authors of the 20th century such as Maurice Maeterlinck, Robert Poulet or even François Emmanuel preferred to interpret this withdrawal of being towards the world as a beneficent source. Like Schopenhauer or a Spenglerian vision of human evolution, these writers invite us to discover in this solitude the opportunity to experience a unique learning experience, in harmony with nature, offering the possibility of leaving the infertile swarming of a dying society. To be alone is to agree to enter an initiation rite that recognizes the world artificially built by humans as a dead end, as a decoy. The absence of loneliness diverts us from our deepest aspirations. Reduced to being only one element among others, drowned by beliefs, declining under the weight of deadly progress, man avoids the reality of his self and its meanderings. However, to encourage the reader to deeply perceive the favorable character of a solitude that everyone avoids out fear of emptiness, what could be more striking than to highlight blind figures? These modern magi show us the benefits of a solitude of which they master, through their closed corporeality for any sighted individual, the mysteries that the mass think frightening.

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