The paper presents a comparison of two attitudes toward the elements of human experience which point to transcendence in the world of immanence in two authors more or less declaredly non-religious authors. After a brief excursion into a work of philosophy (Le Visible et l'invisible) and into a work of fiction (Para Sempre), the paper concentrates into the verbal means understood by the two authors as a way of access to the theoretically impossible and unspeakable.