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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.0w52xv
- isbn: 9782878542790
- eisbn: 9782878548617
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André Bleikasten, « « Ce grand animal divin et sans Dieu » : l’humain et l’inhumain chez Faulkner », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.0w52xv
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For Faulkner the ultimate question is no longer: «What is man?», but rather: «Who is man?» It is no longer a matter of probing «human nature», nor even of dealing with «the human condition», but of mapping a territory, of exploring the indistinct zones between the human and the nonhuman, the human and the inhuman. Hence the novelist's abiding concern with those borderline situations which threaten to deprive his characters of their selfhood: the extremes of desire and despair, madness and death. Man, according to Faulkner, is not an intermediary creature half-way between the divine and the animal, but rather, in Sartre's phrase, «this great divine animal without God, lost from the moment of this birth, and intent on destroying himself».