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Clio. Dialogue between History and the Pagan Soul

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Clio. Dialogue between History and the Pagan Soul
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Charles Péguy (1873–1914), a leading French Christian writer and poet of the turn of the 20th century who remained virtually unnoticed by his contemporaries, takes issue with the dominant ideas of the modernist era in his philosophical essay "Clio, Dialogue between History and the Pagan Soul" (1909). Unlike modernism, which sought to compartmentalize human history, Péguy sees history not as a dehydrated set of facts, but as a mystically endless, paradoxical narrative, and chooses Clio, the ancient muse of history, as his narrator. Readers will join the author and interlocutor in navigating Clio's musings, which are rich in cultural reminiscences: the essay resembles a labyrinth, intertwining polemics with Nietzsche's ideas, almost poetic reflections on Homer's lines and Hugo's couplets, criticism of the bourgeoisie of the writer's time, and admiration for Monet's sketches.
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