Expérience mystique et mystère eucharistique chez Julien Green. Variations autour de la figure maternelle

Abstract

The reflections that are proposed in Ce qu’il faut d’amour à l’homme are an opportunity to fully understand the complex spiritual path of Julien Green. The story highlights the close relationship between mystical experience, that founds the child’s faith, and Green’s mother, who maintains his ignorance of the mystery. Thus, when his mother dies, a paradise seems to have been broken, now replaced by pleasures of the flesh. So, the challenge of the spiritual path will be for the writer to return to this original state, using for this two particular methods: art (with Willam Blake) and Catholicism (through a personal conception of the Eucharist, in which the Virgin is understood as the “guardian” of the Sacrifice of the Son).