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Between Books / Entre Deux Livres: The Writer'S Time / Le Temps De L'Crivain (The Antonine Maillet Northrop Frye Lecture) (,Used
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Once a work is completed, when and how do writers and other artists embrace their next creative work? In this fascinating book, Monique LaRue gives a tantalizing glimpse of the contour of time shaped by inspiration rather than the movement of the clock. Moving from the philosophical to the personal, she provides a view of how each of her novels has come into existence the personal context in which each came to be and the social context in which each was received.LaRue uses two important words in her approach to this 'betweentime' of creative possibility. The first, 'meander,' from the Greek name for Maiandros, has come to signify 'wandering at random.' Like Northrop Frye, she distinguishes between 'Kairos,' the mysterious, unpredictable moment when the creative impulse is released, and 'chronos,' or passing time. This ephemeral moment, as explained by LaRue, is of time but not in it. Given this paradox, it should come as no surprise that LaRues betweentime of writing creatively has no name. Mortality brings time and its passage unceasingly to mind. Yet, the mental action of moving freely through meandering associations during the time between works becomes the criterion for thinking creatively.Une fois une uvre acheve, quand et comment crivains et artistes abordentils leur prochaine cration? Dans cet ouvrage passionnant, Monique LaRue nous donne un avantgot allchant des contours du temps tracs, dans ce cas, par notre imaginaire et non par les aiguilles de lhorloge. Naviguant entre la philosophie et lexprience personnelle, elle nous livre un aperu de la gense de chacun de ses livres tant les circonstances personnelles dans lesquelles chacun a vu le jour que le contexte social qui les a accueillis.Deux mots cls mergent de la dmarche de LaRue dans son exploration de cet entre deux temps du potentiel cratif. Le premier, mandre , provenant du terme grec Maiandros qui veut dire errer au hasard . linstar de Northrop Frye, elle distingue entre Kairos , le moment mystrieux et imprvisible o llan crateur est libr, et Chronos , le temps qui passe. Pour Larue, ce moment phmre, surgit du temps sans toutefois en faire partie. De par ce paradoxe, il nest gure surprenant de constater que l entretemps de lcriture crative dont traite LaRue est innomm, Notre mortalit nous renvoie inlassablement au temps. Pourtant, la pense crative exige une activit mentale qui volue librement, serpentant, au cours de ce temps entre deux uvres, au gr des alas des associations mandres.
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