Christianne Singer Interviewée par le CICNS - Version intégrale

C. Singer Interviewed by the CICNS in Paris, May 23, 2006 - Full version. Christiane Singer was a lecturer at the University of Basel, then a lecturer at the University of Fribourg before devoting herself to her literary pursuits. She studied under Graf Karlfried Dürckheim (a disciple of C. G. Jung). A prolific writer with a Christian sensibility imbued with Eastern wisdom, she refrained from giving moral lessons and rejected all dogmatism. Her work and personal reflections are entirely centered on the necessary consideration of the spiritual risk that lies dormant in everyone's heart. She has written numerous novels and essays of great literary quality, including "Histoire d'âme" (Story of the Soul), which earned her the Albert Camus Prize in 1989, "La mort viennoise" (Vienna Death), winner of the Prix des Libraires (Booksellers' Prize) in 1979, and more recently, "Éloge du mariage, de l'engagement et autres folies" (In Praise of Marriage, Commitment, and Other Follies). and her latest book: "Don't Forget the Foaming Horses of the Past." Sensitive to the situation of spiritual minorities in France, she wished to contribute to the work of the CICNS by granting us this interview. Christiane Singer passed away on April 4, 2007, from cancer. She had just finished a book recounting her experience with the disease: "Last Fragments of a Long Journey."