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Giorgio Works Of Harmony And Happiness Really True Wisdom

Posted on:2012-05-24Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1105330344952170Subject:French Language and Literature
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It seems that his work has been together two distinct but complementary Orients:Giono opposes the "Dionysian experience" in this "science Apollonian":one is the wild East, which is proof of Dionysian excess of the world of strangeness brutal, violent, bloody, savage conflict between nature and humans, the other East, which is related to sensitivity and primitive antique shows, however, a tranquility, a serenity that is very similar to certain points of view, Taoism. And I’m interested a lot as a researcher with the Chinese cultural context. By emitting categories and constraints, Giono tries to open immensely to cross the disenchanted world and to discover the enchantment of the world, the essential things and ourselves, freedom and gioniennes individuality. His ontological quest does not translate into words to be, but the words to be. It is not just a classic romance, however, it evolves continuously and reported astonishing originality and novelty, thus widening access to the depth of the human being itself through an infinite experiences and fears. By forming a Way of Knowledge inner quest ontological Giono emerges not only its own identity-and truly individual and liberal-but also leads to what is said an essence of man, mankind. In this she becomes human truth and it applies to us all.For a long search of finding another reality, another world beyond the everyday, Giono disclaims all its attributes, all its guises and manifestations of pure freedom, true individuality. According to the view of Taoism, that is the Vide. This notion is the largest, just after that of the Tao in the Tao Te King. It is a worldview that it places the Tao as the ultimate reality, essential, as it’s natural and spontaneous as concrete and confidential. There is no canonical nor codified. In ours lives, it’s everywhere and metaphor. Rather than an intimate experience, a strict philosophy, it never takes a constant shape or that of a system, it is not only a metaphysical entity but also a mystical presence. As for Vide, is a unified thought:concentration, lack of desire, purity of faith, simplicity, which forms a state of mind, an interior layout designed to experience this mystical presence, the Tao.The culmination of the quest even approximates the route of self-knowledge of the different pathways by Giono Eastern Knowledge to be profound. To clarify this relationship, a question arises:How can we not also bring in their way and how they express themselves and take place, the inner journey of Giono and the various pathways Oriental and Far East to identify the stepsCommons (by following along as well), the intersection, and set them to update their kinship? This problem has inexhaustible interest, both in comparative literature in comparative culture. To elucidate this relationship, we must make necessary preparations in distinguishing modes of thinking between East and West.Through Ways of Knowledge, this Way East is as one of the new paths to guide and lead the West out of the contemporary difficulties, to find our inner being, to regain the inner dimension ignored, reinvest, and in-then finally to reconnect with the transcendent. The real purpose of human existence and purpose deep are they not understand this Transcendent Being within oneself? Because most of the eastern ways of knowing are demonstrated in the general form of a progressive influence on the individual being the universal reality of the Vide, the Vide apprehension seems to be central in the work of Giono in the seizure of one and the same Ultimate Reality whose being is trying to fully grasp the happiness. War in the infantry, and draft evasion in 1940, then an attitude of abstention during the Occupation as withdrawal, such ordeals suffered Giono are never subject to a trial or bitterness. However, they are an opportunity to show a quiet harmony, the Vide. This harmony, this sense of unity with the natural world, society and the self, never appear as clearly as the dark hours. It can be read clearly in his correspondence from 1917 to 1945. In writing about Melville one of his finest books of criticism, Giono had delivered his own secret:It’s in the midst of peace (and therefore in the midst of war) of great battles in which only one is committed and whose tumult silence for the rest of the world. What Giono sought all his life, peace as a spiritual silence in turmoilGiono develops his particular style in its relentless pursuit of a romantic style more reflective, a quest in which it reflects his personal domain. Usually one can distinguish a journey of three phases in proportion to the three principal moments of the work.Based on this goal, the creation proceeds largely on the following approach: the challenge of the quest is the enchantment of the world. Giono’s ontological quest proceeds as and when it is created. Thus in each period, Giono feels different degrees of perceptions of the Vide. In the second part of the thesis, an attempt will be made to try to establish continuity, the same one that exists behind the operation, in order to approach the truth of the man across the various truths his literary creation.Toward harmony is not a stable phase, but a dynamic state that knows further movements. How to maintain the harmony is the heart of the problem to be addressed in the second part of the thesis. I will focus my research especially in journalistic essays and interviews with friends of Giono. In summarizing the solutions proposed, we can direct the attention on two aspects:Being himself and Eastern wisdom (Taoism largely Buddhist in part).And of course, the stylistic Giono is gradually colored by Eastern philosophical influences, for example the invention of zero, the gap, the ellipsis. We will discover later, at the end of the thesis. In addition, it is obvious that for Giono, writer and craftsman, his quest is multiplied by the corresponding ontological search to the style quests in each phase.The writing reflects their own identity and it bears the distinctive identity of this objective. With it, Giono manages to escape the abyss of oblivion and silence, and he maintains a fierce thirst for moral and spiritual greatness. According to him, make a work like making a living. The general theme of my thesis will lie more in the act of creation than that of creation itself. The act of creation is both affirmation of the reality of the Vide and triumph over chaos. At a higher level, the act of creation can proceed in a non-intervention, a non-action, it draws the parallel with Taoism. It puts off total abandonment to own movements for the creation and destruction of the mystical world, and the process of rediscovering the original creation. Giono has worked all his life mostly in the creation of the work. For him, it is a struggle in life and struggle against the world marred by petty modernity. Do equivalent work to life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Giono’s quest, wisdom, emptiness, harmony, fight
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