Éthique et mystique scientifique dans Le Principe (2015) de Jérôme Ferrari

Abstract

With Le Principe, published in 2015, Jérôme Ferrari continues his research for a complex novelistic able to integrate the history of the past Century and its traumas: the narrator returns to the rise of Nazism, to the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and looks back on the disasters of the postwar. Thanks to the autofictional part of the novel, the reader goes also to Corsica in the nineties to Dubaï in the year two thousand and ten. The novelist follows the major stapes of the life of Heisenberg (1901-1976), a famous physicist who developed the “uncertainty principle” which is the one of the most important results of twentieth Century physics. He writes a hybrid and singular novel which questions, between knowledges and fiction, our present time in terms of the historical past and a reflection on the transcendence.

Keywords

• contemporary French novel
• history
• knowledge
• epistemology
• sufism
• autofiction