Abstract

Forty years after his death, this paper reminds Gabriel Marcel, retracing the autobiographical side of his work. In it, Marcel lifts the veil on the experiential background on which his writings stand out. What emerges is a style of search in constant dialogue with the existence, touched by that “bite of reality” which opens to the ‘concrete philosophy’, to a tale of self in which interweave different orders of reality: nature, freedom and grace; time, history and eternity in their profiles of visibility and invisibility, of reality and fiction. Marcel’s autobiography testifies the structural relatedness of the subject which involves the ethical, ontological and religious contemporary reflection.