The expression of temporality in The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau
The expression of temporality in The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau

Summary/Abstract: According to Anne Ubersfeld, theatrical time is an image of time and history and especially of individual psychic time that passes events through the filter of sensitive experience. In Jean Cocteau's play, The Human Voice, in particular, time is determined by the character's individual experience. For example, in The Human Voice, the breaks marked by the fall of the telephone line refer to a subjective time of the character that is not related to the actual duration. The crisis of the protagonist takes place between the first interruption of the telephone line (this marks the woman's discovery that she was deceived) and the last (the winding of the telephone wire around the neck and the death of the character). Remembering the past is a way of rejecting the present when the feeling of being abandoned has become unbearable.

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