PRISON ET ÉVASION : ENTRE CONCENTRICITÉ ET EXCENTRICITÉ TEMPORELLES
PRISON AND ESCAPE: BETWEEN TEMPORAL CONCENTRICITY AND ECCENTRICITY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to show that in Nerval’s work, moreprecisely in “History of the abbot Bucquoy”, the incongruous orfragmented writing method is not opposed to the idea of wholeness orunity, but to the idea of continuous totality, of flowless texture, ofdiscursive continuity and internal organicity. Nerval’s writing is themirror of a multifaceted history, marginal and subversive, which cannotbe read or understood only in this against-discursivity manner, therefore,in its lack of linearity. The cyclic, subjective, tabular or spiral time of thisstory, opposed to the linear and objective time, imposes a certain readingof gestures and escape attempts of the character. The terms ofimprisonment and escape are no longer experienced as a physical time,but as subversive experiences, as latent opposition and resistance.

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