The Enchanted Clock: A Novel by Julia Kristeva

Author:Julia Kristeva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, Historical, General, Psychological
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2018-01-02T01:14:04.341000+00:00

I forget nothing, neither his explanations nor Justine, the others, Stan, Theo. My vertical time crumbles. I do sense that a depressed person suspends his time: Claude-Siméon Passemant recovers from his father’s death only by ejecting himself into Newton’s global time, which he shuts up in his astronomical clock. The orphan Louis XV is haunted by grief for his assassinated parents; he denies it through sexual exploits, hunts, and feverish conquests. Global time is replaced by proper, singular times, memories, traumas. How many? Numerous.

Take the Inferno, its name is legion. The damned, the outlaws in the time-out-of-time of the unconscious. The Purgatorio follows. It is established when one strives to compress a mass of incommensurable existences; it’s the recomposed family, the chimerical wager on cohabitation, it’s the “living-together” of breakups and solitudes, jealousies to the death and toxic cultural diversions. Paradiso, finally: the loving ultratime of Astro and Nivi …

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