ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the poetic experience, which is seen as a specific experience, which can be felt though the creation of a work, the siting of a passage from the profane state to the true life, as the great contemporary writers all express it. For, the themes of epic narratives and romantic narratives do not change: the models passed down from the most distant past do not disappear. Furthermore, the myth of the hero always uses the same structure, whether in mythological fiction, biblical narratives, the true novel, the detective novel, the western and even in political propaganda. It is rather surprising to observe that the initiation of the mythical hero, reproduced in the itinerary of the character in a novel. To read is to die to oneself and to the profane world in order to reach the sacred world of myths and symbols, whereas to write is to seek, through a false death, to be reborn immortal.
