베르나르 베르베르의 소설 파피용 은 문명의 환생 이론을 토대로 고통의 반복과 그 탈출을 이야기하므로 힌두철학의 형이상학,실천론과 비교될 여지가 충분하다. 그러나 파피용 은 직선적 시간관을 배경으로 세계의 건축을 향하고 힌두철학은 순환적 시간관을 배경으로 개인의 해체를 향하기 때문에, 양자에서 형이상학적 전제의 차이는 실천론의 차이를 수반한다. 그 결과 파피용 에서는 유한한 시간 안에서 전체성을 통해 실패의 역사적 반복을 탈출하여 세계의 건축을 완성하고자 하고, 힌두철학에서는 무한한 시간 안에서 개별 인간이 개별성을 해체하는 것을 통해 존재의 무한반복을 탈출하여 보편성을 인식하고자 한다.

This article is a reading of strategy contained in Le Papillon Des Etoiles, Bernard Werber`s new novel, in comparison to Hindu philosophy. The strategy of Le Papillon Des Etoiles, which is said to be ``Repetition of suffering and Escape from suffering``, is open to further discussion with regard to Hindu metaphysics and practical method, as Hindu philosophy presupposes not only an infinite repetition of human suffering but a trial of escape from that suffering. It can be said that the tale of Le Papillon Des Etoiles is developed from the earth through the contracted miniature of the earth i.e. the column to a new earth. Although human beings attempt to escape the earth which is full of suffering, they are brought to naught continuously wherever they are. However they never give up their hope in Le Papillon Des Etoiles for the purpose of escaping the historical failure by suggesting the sublimation of life and knowledge. This kind of tale structure would be discovered in and compared with Hindu metaphysics and practical method. Le Papillon Des Etoiles has the linear view of time as its background, while Hindu philosophy generally depends on the cyclic view of time. In this way the philosophy of time related to the linear view of time in Le Papillon Des Etoiles has an effect on a completion of world`s architecture through the recognition of the totality (of life and knowledge) to escape the historical repetition of failure. On the other hand, the philosophy of eternity related to the cyclic view of time in Hindu philosophy gives necessarily birth to an awareness of universality through the deconstruction of an individuality to escape the ontological repetition of failure. Accordingly it is a definite fact that the difference of metaphysical presupposition determines that of practical method.