Espace, temps et langage dans le roman La Modification deMichel Butor
Space, Time and Language in the Novel La Modification by Michel Butor

Summary/Abstract: M. Butor's distinctive vision of the novel is applied in the novel A Change of Heart. The novel is a journey, a language experience for him. A Change of Heart, a novel written almost entirely in the second person plural, is the novel of a train journey that overlaps two cities: Paris and Rome. Butor chooses the Simple Present and Simple Past, as verb tenses for his narrative. The journey is also an adventure of novel writing. Along the 21 journey hours, the reader is projected into the flesh and mind of the characters, in the carriage and the surroundings, and also in their memories, projects, dreams, and hallucinations. Who could be this you? The narrator, a fictional character, the reader? The indirect speech discourse covers most of the novel. It is not related to some narrated words, but to thoughts. Thoughts are the expression of the inner language, of this inner voice explicitly named in the novel, alongside with thoughts.

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