Romain Gary, a philosophy of love

Abstract

Literature and Philosophy originate from the proposition of answers to questions that Involve the self, the other, existence, knowledge, love, death, good, evil, as well as all vices and virtues, even if the Literary text does not originate specifically from the need to find such answers, In a movement of aspiration for truths, as the philosophical text does. Thus, if, on the one hand, truth is reached through reason and arguments, on the other, truth is reached through artistic creation and the fictionalization of the experience of being and being. When it comes to Romain Gary’s novels, the experience of affection, and especially love, are as crucial to the unfolding of the narrative as the triggering of events so that the manifestations of love occupy a central place In the plot. Considering the principle that both philosophy and literature enable knowledge of the most essential issues of the Individual and his experience In the world, this article is based on the study of moral philosophy, developed by Nussbaum (1990), In which the philosophical search for knowledge is guided by literary analysis, aiming to analyze how Romain Gary’s novelistic work contributes to the understanding of relationships defined by means of a term as broad as love, based on the hypothesis that irony is the linguistic element that gives fictional and narrative content its philosophical character.