Le « sacré noir » chez Georges Bataille et Hubert Aquin

Abstract

Affinities gather Hubert Aquin’s and Georges Bataille’s writings. These two authors explore a mystic way wich presents strong similarities, related to what Roger Caillois called « left sacred ». Georges Bataille wants to free the mystic experience from its religious background and to make ecstasy accessible to everybody. It is precisely by «communicating» that men can break their isolation and that of the others and reach ecstasy. Even if Hubert Aquin hasn’t the same cultural background than Georges Bataille, he also theorizes and represents in his novels a form of « extreme of the possible », which is very close to the bataillian « impossible ». This article aims to show how Georges Bataille’s theories of « inner experience » and eroticism highlight Hubert Aquin’s essays, «Journal» and novels. We will be able this way to define the pecularities of the mystic way explored by the author from Quebec.