Du terrestre et de l’eau-delà, corruption et spiritualité de l’Inde: approche bachelardienne à l’ambivalence de l’eau dans Le gardien du Gange de Guy Deleury
[EN] The interest in the East, travelling and conquering led several Frenchmen to join the East Indian Company. Among them, Pierre Cuillier or Perron, who was the first Frenchman to reach the Indian city of Pune in 1777, becomes the main character of Le gardien du Gange (1994) by the Jesuit and Indi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | francés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/98098 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/98098 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Guy Deleury India Ganges Gaston Bachelard Agua |
| Sumario: | [EN] The interest in the East, travelling and conquering led several Frenchmen to join the East Indian Company. Among them, Pierre Cuillier or Perron, who was the first Frenchman to reach the Indian city of Pune in 1777, becomes the main character of Le gardien du Gange (1994) by the Jesuit and Indianist Guy Deleury (1922-2015). Traditionally associated with spirituality through Western eyes, India nevertheless shows its two faces in Le gardien du Gange : devotion and religiosity lay alongside corruption, immorality and wars. In this paper, Bachelard’s approach to the symbolism of water helps reflect on the role of this element in India. Present in the world of seamen, means of travel, purifying element in baptism and funeral rituals, associated with the feminine and sensual, water is not just a geographical tributary, but it is full of meaning. Perron, a French adventurer arrived in India, had built his house between the Ganges and the Yamuna, two rivers which still remain sacred spaces in the collective imagination, which link life and death, and which are a social mirror that reflect the historical and cultural future of India. |
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