Secrecy Curiosity and the Sacrilage of fiction Lecture in Contemporary English Literatures University of Silesia Marcin Sarnek

Dan Brown The DaVinci Code Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail I must pass on the secret "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

Secret – Sacred secenere, lat, sift apart, to separate as with a sieve secrecy – calculated exclusion form participation experience and practice of secrecy elevates the secret secret – sacred – privacy secrecy highlights the value of all revelations protection and distribution of secrets – power dissemination of information: sociology of secrecy - sociology of curiosity secrets – truth – deception – lying

Dan Brown The DaVinci Code Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail I must pass on the secret "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate"

Secret - Truth more fiction than facts exposition of the secret – sacrilage Passion of the Christ / The Da Vinci Code secrets have to remain secret to be secret telephone an interplay of the thrill of desecrating defacement with the horror of blasphemy energy liberated by acts of sacrilege literary semi-sacrilege

Robert Harris, Enigma, 1995 Enigma, 2001, directed by Michael Apted, screenplay by Tom Stoppard