Embedded in this portrayal of an abbey breaking free from corruption under the leadership of Abbot Samson is a deeply hostile and intolerant attitude toward the mere presence
of Jews in a Christian community. First, it is worth noting that Jocelin was himself the author of an anti-Semitic blood libel about the murder of a boy named Robert by the…[Read more]

Les fictions historiques de Malraux et de Tolstoï ont des différences fondamentales. Premièrement, quand Tolstoï utilise le mysticisme chrétien de son époque pour répondre à la philosophie hégélienne, Malraux emploie le mysticisme oriental pour répondre aux métarécits du communisme, du fascisme, et de l’impérialisme. Deuxièmement, cependant que To…[Read more]

By removing Herbert’s existential doubt, Milton’s personification of the relationship between God and humanity as an attitude of disloyalty, Satan, or as an attitude of loyalty, Jesus, represent a conceptual regression from Herbert. Since Milton’s symbolic representation of good and evil as Jesus and Satan groups an ambiguous set of spiri…[Read more]