The shaded part.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 29361 |
| Format | 14.5 x 22.5 |
| Détails | 51 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Montpellier, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
The shadow is first a sign, traced by the brush of a calligrapher who, somewhere behind it, obscures the light. Just as the abhra Sanskrit means zero, the stoikheĩon Greek ( στοιχεῖον ) designates at the same time the needle which marks the shadow on a sundial, a writing character, a letter, a principle, a primary element. It is therefore the alpha and the omega, the true brick of primitive life which astrophysicists track down and which space missions will seek in the snow of comets. It reigned over the world before the fiat lux . She will take back her scepter and her orb when the sound of the last trumpet dies away.
What are the terms for shadow in Japanese, Arabic, or Tibetan? And what do these expressions conceal in their own darkness? In an attempt to answer this question, these pages descend to the shaded part of language, depths where some secrets of the mind wait to be revealed. This shadow – what it symbolizes for people, the etymology of the words used to name it – offers the author fertile ground on which to base his philosophy. To consider the shadow solely as a "luminous, physical, climatic or astral manifestation" would be a mistake: present everywhere, it is within it that meaning, our world and all others, are drawn. Hunting in nature, the arts, myths and memories, a vocabulary to better express and interpret it, this is what is at stake here.
The shadow is first a sign, traced by the brush of a calligrapher who, somewhere behind it, obscures the light. Just as the abhra Sanskrit means zero, the stoikheĩon Greek ( στοιχεῖον ) designates at the same time the needle which marks the shadow on a sundial, a writing character, a letter, a principle, a primary element. It is therefore the alpha and the omega, the true brick of primitive life which astrophysicists track down and which space missions will seek in the snow of comets. It reigned over the world before the fiat lux . She will take back her scepter and her orb when the sound of the last trumpet dies away.
What are the terms for shadow in Japanese, Arabic, or Tibetan? And what do these expressions conceal in their own darkness? In an attempt to answer this question, these pages descend to the shaded part of language, depths where some secrets of the mind wait to be revealed. This shadow – what it symbolizes for people, the etymology of the words used to name it – offers the author fertile ground on which to base his philosophy. To consider the shadow solely as a "luminous, physical, climatic or astral manifestation" would be a mistake: present everywhere, it is within it that meaning, our world and all others, are drawn. Hunting in nature, the arts, myths and memories, a vocabulary to better express and interpret it, this is what is at stake here.