Abstract EN:

During a comparative analysis of "The Name of the Rose" and "Foucault's Pendulum" of Eco, of "The Alchemist", "The Pilgrimage", "The River Piedra", "The Fifth Mountain" of Coelho and of The Qumran Trilogy of E. Abécassis, we endeavoured to define this influence. The identification of the biblical quotations in their work and their comparison thus made it possible to establish a kind of Bible at the same time universal, only made up of the most known Books like those of The Genesis, The Exodus, The Gospels and The Revelation, and personal, translating the particular interest of Coelho for The First Book of the Kings and for Luke whom he always quotes forward. On behalf of E. Abécassis, the significance of The Psalms and The Ecclesiastes rhythmes her hero's thoughts, and with regard to Eco, the reappropriation of The Coena Cypriani, of The Book of the Revelation and The Song of Salomon makes "The Name of the Rose" a palimpsest of the Bible. Each one has its own reception of the religion and its Writings : Coelho, the prodigal son, makes use of it of parabola to illustrate the many analogies of his philosophy, E. Abécassis is the most faithful as possible, while making of a novel's hero the reincarnation of the Messiah, and going until making him become God, whereas Eco, proclaiming perhaps too extremely his loss of the faith, diverts and perverts everything with his great irony. This thematic comparison between the three inspired writers, respectively by a universal New-Age, the flame of the judaïc faith and the irony of the man who doubts, sets off a new religion which skilfully mixes, in a kind of rehabilitation of the Human, the profane with the holy.