The romantic lie and the fictional truth

The book of the romantic lie and the narrative truth by René Girard, Arab Organization for Translation. After the romantic lie and the narrative truth, René Girard intends in his book Violence and the Sacred to elevate us to the beginnings of the cultural and social edifice that rises in the heart of our civilization. This distinguished research focuses on the fundamental role of institutionalized violence and the sacrificial victim based on a very personal new reading of the Greek tragedians, and at the same time a thorough discussion of the most important interpretive approaches, especially psychoanalysis. Thus, the religion based on violent consensus finds a precise analysis and an unprecedented interpretation in this pioneering research.