La machine du roman et le mouvement de la vie. Nancy Huston, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson
The Machine of the Novel and the Movement of Life. Nancy Huston, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Bergson

Author(s): Jan Miernowski
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: literary mechanism; biological Life; Nancy Huston; Gilles Deleuze; Henri Bergson
Summary/Abstract: This article shows how the literary mechanism of a novel can successfully express the truth of biological life. The key of this artistic success is a proper rhythm which is never a repetition of the same, but rather the emergence of the new that encompasses past, present and future in one indivisible duration. Such is the teaching of Henry Bergson that permeates Nancy Huston’s 1999 novel Prodige. Polyphonie. The intermediary between the Canadian novelist and the French philosopher is Gilles Deleuze.

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