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Thibault de Montaigu-Sébastien Lapaque: "How can we still believe in God?"

2021-04-02T18:08:19.187Z


INTERVIEW - For the authors, the return of Catholicism in the novel signifies the undefeated power of literature to speak of the soul and to preserve this interior life threatened by the contemporary din.


The two writers have published two conversion novels.

In La Grâce (Plon, prix de Flore), Thibault de Montaigu describes that of his uncle Christian, a former debauchery who became a Franciscan monk.

Sébastien Lapaque, journalist at Le Figaro littéraire, tells in This world is so beautiful (Acte Sud) the path of Lazare, a forty-something disgusted by the ugliness of the modern world.

On this Easter Saturday, our two disciples of Huysmans discuss the possibility of believing in a dechristianized world.

They see in the renewal of faith as a literary object the symptom of a loss which deeply affects our society.

LE FIGARO.

- Your two novels are conversion stories.

In a time of spiritual emptiness and the triumph of technology, is faith the last dissent?

Thibault DE MONTAIGU.

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When I had my book published, I encountered very strong resistance.

There is a formidable allergy to the faith - it is an understatement to say it - in French cultural circles.

It's not

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Source: lefigaro

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