L’analepse; les souvenirs mis au service de l’histoire; pour une littérature slow
Analepsis; memories put at the service of history; for slow literature

Author(s): Zaid Khaldoon ABDOUN
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, 17th Century, History of Art
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Analepsis; sacrifice; Racinian theater; chronological order; graced child; nostalgia;
Summary/Abstract: The analepsis or the flashback is a novelistic narrative process more than theatrical, this technique which slows down the narrative moment to enjoy more the moments of past which push us to taste the beauty of slow literature by returning to the past of the story, to awaken the sad or happy moments of the past. These trembles in chronological order sometimes occur to explain a current action in the story. An action that needs to be clarified. Therefore, the analepsis is justified; clearly clarify an event in the present. Flashback could also show nostalgia when the narrator stops the narration and goes back to the past to properly show a touching and affecting moment in some character's past. It is like an invitation to relive the past and taste the lucidity of the art of narration in classical theater. We observed the existence of this process in the theater of Jean Racine, it was to serve the theatrical intrigue and to reveal the past of the characters to the spectators, reason why, the analepsis is presented as a technique usually used in novels but apparently adapted by the theater in Andromaque and Iphigenia.

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