La lenteur, un rythme avoisinant l’éternité
Slowness, a rhythm approaching eternity

Author(s): Emilia Dolcu
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Lived time; acting out; being present oneself; being present for another; serenity; pure duration;
Summary/Abstract: As human beings, living on Earth, we are connected to terrestrial time, and therefore to the same measurement system, without which we could not communicate with each other. And yet what we communicate is our difference. The author of “Matière et Mémoire”, who makes perception an essential component of Time, makes this clear. Through Bergsonian duration, this lived time, irreducible to measurable time, I propose to reassess slowness, which is a rhythm bordering on eternity, which is therefore not immobility. By wanting to make joy “last”, Jean Giono transmits the same message, a message that I will try to dissect in his two writings, “The man who planted the trees” and “May my joy remain”.

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