LE COMPLEXE DE SCHÉHÉRAZADE : TEMPS ET HISTOIRE CHEZ GRAHAM SWIFT

Graham Swift's anamnesis of existence is placed within a framework where the absolute is continually called into question. Its parameters are therefore not confined to a single life, but range over generations. This initiates a lucid reflexion both on human time and history, where Swift reveals...

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Published in:Etudes anglaises 1996-01, Vol.49 (1), p.52
Main Author: Westphal, Bertrand
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
British & Irish literature
Corporate histories
English literature
Literary criticism
Perceptions
Swift, Graham (1949- )
Writers
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Summary:Graham Swift's anamnesis of existence is placed within a framework where the absolute is continually called into question. Its parameters are therefore not confined to a single life, but range over generations. This initiates a lucid reflexion both on human time and history, where Swift reveals a tension between stark reality and man's wishful perception of it. So, like Sheherazade, people tell stories in order to make history bearable. Such a revelation would be alarming, had curiosity not turned out to be man's driving force : bombs and horrors of every kind will never destroy this, for as long as the mistery of eel reproduction remains. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0014-195X
1965-0159