This dialogue with its own history, with this "crisis" recorded in 'eighteen-bound notebooks hardcover "that he will rediscover and re-read the comments Carrère and he fed at lévidence, many scholarly readings. Indeed, one might think that he never stopped na lentretenir. The episode of his life in which he agreed to rewrite lévangile according to the Bible Marc Bayard had to rely much in his determination to get on the craft that further reflection on the beginnings of Christianity and Jesus. To finally pay the debt that every writer needs to Scripture?
Former journalist whose style has kept the first job required the "clear line", Emmanuel Carrère has always had a double taste: that the lives of others and that of the investigation. His book was dailleurs sappelerLenquête Luke this is because of the evangelist that he tries to reconstruct the course. It is in this meeting Paul and Luke telling in Acts of the Apostles that meeting and the early days of what is not yet Leglise then writing the life of Jesus, which will project the writer and screenwriter Carrère for his attempt to reconstruct the genesis dune New Testament and this new religion which Renan, as Carrère admire, say, "Leglise, this is a sect that has succeeded".
Imagine Luc Carrère work will be for the only way to rationally combine Paul, inventor of a Christianity out history we could say "above ground" - since before the writing of the Gospels and even, ultimately, ignoring, with the figure of its founder, Jesus, obscure Galilean prophet, whose ignominious death on a Roman cross should definitely disperse the person, teachings and disciples on the night of oblivion. Luke is the go-between, the ideal bridge between Jesus and Paul Carrère and will cleverly inventing its path dauteur enjoying the silence of the texts and history.
Paul teaches that the world's wisdom is foolishness with God and God chose what was weak in the world to shame what is strong. This quentendent correspondents Paul's epistles is, Carrère, "something dabsolument again" (271) in the ancient world, linstar the famous "the first shall be last" (and vice versa). Carrère ultimately confronts the figure and lenseignement Paul dUlysse those who refused the proposal of Calypso, "that nobody made us," he notes with regret tip (293) with an eternity of love woman forever young. However, the proposed Calypso, says Carrere has a "striking resemblance" with that of Paul: deliverance from life and its degradable flesh, lici there, the mans condition. For Carrère, there are two human families: that of men who love life on earth and want to nen else: and "the worried, melancholy, of those who believe that real life is elsewhere. "(294). It does not seem to see that Christians, like other and from all eras, are divided between these two families and are even intimately torn between them.
In the investigation started the next chapter, will gradually emerge the idea that perhaps these two families will eventually be able to meet and say finally, as pilgrims dEmmaüs, "as sadness, cétait finished" (342), which is that sadness can not not think, by reading any oeuvre by Carrère, which sticks to the skin.
The final quéprouve Carrère doubt regarding his own fidelity to believing that he was and that he is no longer. It is in this, perhaps, "the secret figure of everyone's life" (152), hence his and his reader. Yet it certainly seemed seffacer in the final pages where he describes his meeting with Jean Vanier Arche community. It was there that he makes us the best glimpse the truth of the Kingdom, the one Jesus announces to his disciples that he is "among us" here and now. LorsquElodie, the young Down syndrome, stands in front of Emmanuel and leads her into a dance and a song in which he was reluctant to join linstant davant, this is something that comes to yield. That something, he made the exact description five hundred pages earlier by referring to the conversion of Saul: "all that separates men from each other had disappeared and all that separates the two innermost selves. "(172) Is this not so, the Kingdom, is not it that Elodie finally led Emmanuel" where you do not want to go "(John 21.18, mentioned twice, p. 53 and p. 611) where lon dance, finally?
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Professional scholars denounce probably in the last book of Carrère errors and approximations, no less than daudacieuses assumptions, largely drawn from the work of the British Jewish writer, Hyam Maccoby. Reviews particularly harsh that they will only jealous lexposé clarity and sincerity.
There are still in this book some "hiccups". The synthesis on "ruptures" of Jesus (477-478) ready to Galilean prophet, especially vis-à-vis women, lon opinions that found perhaps in Paul or in the Catholic hierarchy, but not in the Gospels! Where Jesus said he that he must not take a wife, do not want, do not be denfants, and especially that he would prefer "grief, distress, loneliness, humiliation"? Nowhere, it seems. Nietzsche may êtreJésus is a "well-living", not a Cathar. The next book of André Paul, chained Eros (Albin Michel), will also litter the junk. Moreover, from where it takes Carrère quune of the early Christians would be transformed "under lautorité fanatical sect of John" (520) "désotéristes paranoid" (534)? This is not what emerges from lévangile the disciple whom Jesus loved, even if you can smile that said follower (or late scribe) claims that preference master for him, or that he will put himself on stage as the last of faithful men at the foot of the cross.
The Kingdom is not an arid Treaty. The person and the sensitivity of the author and those of his wife, his friends, their daily lives, are constantly mixed with LOEUVRE in the making and this is what makes much of its charm and beyond, strength vital. However, we sétonnera to look around the bend of a comment of a painting of van der Weyden, representing Luc lévangéliste in painting the Virgin, the dune pornographic video that took meticulous description Lheur denchanter our author in the Valais dune his retirement and that he has shared with his wife - it's a free pair in every respect (from 390 to 397, those interested can go there directly). Quest does that got to do? Jai envy tu Mr. Carrère: this is your life and sen fout like to know that your hands are not always placed on the keyboard of your computer. Leave it to Valerie Trierweiler.
As Emmanuel Carrère is invited next Thursday, I will look probably Great Bookstore, since my friend John advised me. As it is a question of the level of our television, I could perhaps then if selected piece is a deliberate provocation of intent stuck cathos who read the book, an exhibition last minute to avoid being tricked by Leglise dun imprimi potest, a way to relieve a moment of a subject too serious or untoward copy and paste that would have escaped proofreading, as the "Pelopponese" (sic) on page 327.
