ABSTRACT
There is no ‘mystery’ in Racine—that is to say, there are no metaphysical speculations in him, no suggestions of the transcendental, no hints as to the ultimate nature of reality and the constitution of the world … The more we examine Racine, the more clearly we shall discern in him another kind of mystery … the mystery of the mind of man … Look where we will, we shall find among his pages the traces of an inward mystery and the obscure infinities of the heart.
