La passion de la connaissance et l’esthétique des proportions chez Matyla Ghyka

Abstract

Matyla Ghyka can be included in the series of writers saved by exile, a series including, among others, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran and Eugène Ionesco. Lesser-known in Romania, in comparison to the aforementioned writers, he lived a life extremely rich in events, and created work that sprung from his passion for the philosophy of numbers, for harmony in nature and arts. His books, written in exile, either in France or the United States, harmoniously complement the philosophical thinking of Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran, without having the same impact or access to media coverage as his fellow countrymen. As a result, reading and interpreting Ghyka, a forbidden writer in communist Romania, appreciated by the interwar and postwar literary elites of Paris and New York, but still largely unknown to the public of the old and new worlds, is all the more necessary.

Keywords

• ride
• adventure
• aesthetics
• Golden section