A sermon on death.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23642 |
| Format | 13 x 22 |
| Détails | 64 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851949226 |
Composed in the manner of a three-point sermon, this reflection by Richard Millet on death is not concerned with its metaphysical consequences as one might expect. It is a question here of the death of the living world: the death of the Christian faith, the death of Western culture, the death of language. A world where everyone, emptied of all substance, finds themselves alone. And the preacher of this sermon is no exception to this rule, subjected to the general opprobrium earned by the scandal linked to his literary essay on Anders Behring Breivik. But it is with an unhealthy pleasure, as if filled with a morbid lucidity, that we delight in this announced end of the world and this angry despair found in great thinkers such as Emil Cioran or Léon Bloy.
Composed in the manner of a three-point sermon, this reflection by Richard Millet on death is not concerned with its metaphysical consequences as one might expect. It is a question here of the death of the living world: the death of the Christian faith, the death of Western culture, the death of language. A world where everyone, emptied of all substance, finds themselves alone. And the preacher of this sermon is no exception to this rule, subjected to the general opprobrium earned by the scandal linked to his literary essay on Anders Behring Breivik. But it is with an unhealthy pleasure, as if filled with a morbid lucidity, that we delight in this announced end of the world and this angry despair found in great thinkers such as Emil Cioran or Léon Bloy.