Lenteur et vitesses des courtisanes
Slowness and speed of courtesans

Author(s): Virgil Borcan
Subject(s): Epistemology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: axes of modalization; temporality; narrative speed; diegesis; omniscient narrator; slowness;
Summary/Abstract: One does not read the Iliad in ten years, nor Joyce's Ulysses in one day. From Monte Cristo to the New Novel, the narrator modulates the temporal axis of the diegesis according to his taste, his epistemological competence, the horizon of expectation of the public. This is also the case of the Comédie humaine, whose narrative "gearbox" we propose to dismantle in order to extract the polymorphic face of a narration that cannot be reduced to simple omniscience.

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