Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought: 96 (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures) - Hardcover

Chaouat, Bruno

 
9781802074512: Out of this World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought: 96 (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures)
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ISBN 10: 1802074511 ISBN 13: 9781802074512
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How to escape this world, this body? How can one invent a world parallel to this one? How do language and literature strive for a heterotopia that empties out the world and replaces it with words? From the mass graves of the First World War to transhumanist utopias, from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Michel Houellebecq, Out of This World focuses on the modern and postmodern vexed relation to the world, body, and Creation, a major theme in gnostic metaphysical rebellion.

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About the Author

Bruno Chaouat is Professor of French at the University of Minnesota.

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1802074511
ISBN 13 
9781802074512
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
232

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