Abstract Hélène Cixous’s engagement with faith is a significant but overlooked facet of her work. Focusing on Beethoven à jamais ou l’existence de Dieu [Beethoven Forever or the Existence of God] (1993), this article contends that Cixous envisions faith as the ground and horizon of both artistic creation and love. To illustrate this point, the author focuses on Cixous’s idiosyncratic portrayal of Ludwig von Beethoven. Her representation of Beethoven as an impassioned lover and artist runs against the grain of the canonical depiction of the composer as a “great man” or a “heroic individual,” as found in the writings of Romain Rolland and Sigmund Freud. For Cixous, love and writing both stem from an unpredictable, joyful event that infinitely exceeds our understanding. Both are predicated on a state of “active passivity” that clears the ground for the event of passion and creation to occur without predetermining what it will be.

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贝多芬与信仰的考验

摘要 Hélène Cixous 对信仰的关注是她作品中一个重要但被忽视的方面。这篇文章聚焦于 Beethoven à jamais ou l'existence de Dieu [Beethoven Forever or the Existence of God] (1993)，认为 Cixous 将信仰视为艺术创作和爱情的基础和视界。为了说明这一点，作者着重于西苏斯对路德维希·冯·贝多芬 (Ludwig von Beethoven) 的独特描绘。她将贝多芬描述为一位充满激情的情人和艺术家，这与罗曼·罗兰和西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的著作中将作曲家描述为“伟人”或“英雄人物”的规范描述背道而驰。对于 Cixous 来说，爱和写作都源于一个不可预测的、令人愉快的事件，它无限地超出了我们的理解。