Abstract In the French Canadian author Sylvain Trudel’s works, mysterious powers are devising ways to destruct the world. Some characters nevertheless resist the idea of an anticipated disaster: they protect themselves from the eschatological threat, and it seems at some point possible to avoid the end. Does it mean that the eschatology is here only a partial apocalypse and that the dreaded death might be an illusory finitude? Can’t Western civilizations, obviously still steeped in Judeo-Christian dualism, get rid of a reality where death is considered a simple void that escapes any understanding, thus forcing the eschatological imagination to build upon it? Mythocritics is used here to determine how the eschatological subtext permeates today’s literature to the extent where the founding mythic stories might be obscured, and to examine how the concept of ending underlies the characters’ adventures. Do death’s representations give one a chance to hope that humanity can survive the coming catastrophe?

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Entre eschatologie et apocalypse：西尔文·特鲁德尔的《金融时报》

摘要在加拿大加拿大裔作家西尔文·特鲁德尔（Sylvain Trudel）的作品中，神秘力量正在构想破坏世界的方式。但是，有些角色仍然抵御可能发生的灾难：他们保护自己免受末世论的威胁，并且似乎有可能避免结局。这是否意味着末世论只是部分启示，而可怕的死亡可能是虚幻的确定？显然仍然浸没在犹太-基督教二元论中的西方文明不能摆脱这样一个现实，即死亡被认为是一个简单的空隙，可以逃脱任何理解，从而迫使末世论的想象力在此基础上发展吗？这里使用神话批评者来确定末世论的潜台词如何渗透到当今的文学作品中，以至于模糊了开创性的神话故事，并考察结局概念是角色冒险的基础。死亡的表现是否给人机会，希望人类能够度过即将来临的灾难？