« Un pont admirable entre visible et invisible » : approches picturales de la mort et de la vie chez Lorette Nobécourt
Pictural Approach of Death and Life in Lorette Nobécourt Works
Author(s): Constance ZoulimSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Visual Arts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: memento mori; living life; the Word; spiritual experience
Summary/Abstract: Lorette Nobécourt is a living French writer (shewasbornin 1968). In herworktakes place a quest of the « Word », the holynameshegives to literature. A great feeling of spiritualitycomes out fromhertexts.From 1999 to 2012 shewrotethreetexts about threedifferent pictural works : La Raie by Chardin (french painter), L’Ordre du monde by Sujata Bajaj (indianartist) and L’Usage des jours by Guillaume Bardet (french designer). Troughhertextsappearsherliterary and spiritual evolution. Literatureproved to be a spiritual ritual, like a memento mori, but also an real prayer, an hymn in praise of the « living life ».
Journal: Quêtes littéraires
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 191-200
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French