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Being interested in the idea of ascension, the focus of the present article is to shed light on the topic regarded from an interdisciplinary perspective: literature, arts, religion, mathematics. Therefore, the elements which are truly essential (from a subjective perspective) are: the ladder, the spiral, Fibonacci and the golden ratio. We have briefly touched upon the motif of the spiral in Dante’s Divina Comedia. Furthermore, we have also shed light on the same motif found in Matya Ghyka’s book The Geometry of Ar...

The purpose of the present article is to offer an in-depth analysis of the narrative techniques that Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt used in order to underline the deep transformations through which the main character, Oscar, a ten-year-old boy who suffers from leukemia, has to face on his journey towards his own death, also making comparisons with another literary work that has cancer as an essential element of the narrative composition: "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green. Moreover, we believe that a major part of this...