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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.ymmliw
- isbn: 9782878542790
- eisbn: 9782878548617
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Isabelle Boof-Vermesse et al., « Child of God (Cormac McCarthy) ou la voie étroite de l'im-monde », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.ymmliw
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Blurring the terms in which we usually define the opposite notions of human and inhuman, Child of God offers a reflexion upon different modes of appropriation and interpretation. Following in the track of Emerson, Cormac McCarthy rehabilitates «the near, the low, the common» and shows how difficult it may be to «approach» the American world. When the human community impedes ail possible access to recognition, it appears tempting to resort to sheer shapelessness, and death is the only habitable realm left. Yet the power of the sign endures, foreshadowing whatever remains to be conceived and bringing to light the promising venues of self-reliance.