Voici venir le temps des origines
Here comes the time of origins

Author(s): Bessem Aloui
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Temporality; slowness; dilation; myth; Sony Labou Tansi;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this work is to think the dilation of time according to the various forms and directions it can take. We will try to demonstrate that time in the work of Sony Labou Tansi is consubstantially linked to origins and myth. I also think that the ritualization of this time refers to a kind of systematized slowness. The sliding of the characters in their "cursed part" makes temporality potentially slow. Time turns into a redemptive force, capable, by its original structure, to resist the excess and to restore any disorder. The slowness is equivalent, in the work of Labou Tansi, to a mythical conception which bathes the described universe in a culture imbricated in myths, allowing, by all means, to escape the speed of the apocalyptic vision often associated with the excess in the text and context. Temporality, in Tansian work, becomes essentially defined by imagination, by fleeing reality and (thus) by settling in the universe of myth.

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