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SecrecyCuriosityand the Sacrilage of fiction
Lecture in Contemporary English Literatures
University of Silesia
Marcin Sarnek
Dan Brown The DaVinci Code
• Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail
• I must pass on the secret • "All descriptions of
artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"
Secret – Sacred
• secenere, lat, sift apart, to separate as with a sieve
• secrecy – calculated exclusion form participation• experience and practice of secrecy elevates the
secret• secret – sacred – privacy• secrecy highlights the value of all revelations• protection and distribution of secrets – power• dissemination of information: sociology of
secrecy - sociology of curiosity• secrets – truth – deception – lying
Dan Brown The DaVinci Code
• Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail
• I must pass on the secret • "All descriptions of
artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"
Secret - Truth
• more fiction than facts • exposition of the secret – sacrilage• Passion of the Christ / The Da Vinci Code• secrets have to remain secret to be secret • telephone• an interplay of the thrill of desecrating
defacement with the horror of blasphemy• energy liberated by acts of sacrilege • literary semi-sacrilege
Robert Harris, Enigma, 1995
• Enigma, 2001, directed by Michael Apted, screenplay by Tom Stoppard