ABSTRACT

It might be tempting to suppose that Claudel starts where Valery leaves off: from the notion that human Eros finds the key to its own nature and movement in ‘the love of God’. Certainly, his religious faith is for Claudel the delivering ‘key’:

Ouvre la porte! et la Sagesse de Dieu est devant toi comme une tour de gloire et comme une reine couronnee!