The subject of this article is the analysis of the issue of time structure in Jorge Semprun’s novel The Long Voyage. By means of the methodology provided by narratology, the novel is subjected to a linear reading in order to determine the way in which its temporal organization undergoes subsequent transformations. Then, based on the findings, I try to create a model of the temporal structure, using the Deleuzian metaphors of a tree and a rhizome, and indicate the importance of these structures for the global meaning of the work.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens was born in 1928 and she died in September 2018. She was a director, a writer, a documentary filmmaker. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 13 1944. At the age of eighty-nine, Marceline Loridan-Ivens decided to open a long-closed suitcase, her “love suitcase” which has been closed for fifty years. The reading of the letters written by her lovers reactivates her memories…
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