« Connais-toi toi-même et tu connaîtras l'univers et les dieux », l’initiation dans Archaos ou le jardin étincelant de C. Rochefort
2021 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 1-24
Archaos ou le jardin étincelant by Cristiane Rochefort, is a post-May 68 utopia. The learning process prescribed in this novel parodies/mocks traditional coming-of-age novels: rules are not enacted by an exogenous mentor. Classical intellectual guides are ridiculed. The process of initiation is turned inward, toward the self, and is accomplished by way of sex education, the ultimate condition for access to power. Resolutely feminist, this novel reconsiders the world led by women. Archaos is the story of a Dionysian journey under the guise of a political utopia which calls for symbolic death and for an esoteric renaissance under the auspices of the goddess Isthar.
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2008 ◽
Vol null
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pp. 227-250
2019 ◽
Vol 64
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pp. 187-197