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• The narrative is linked to this metamorphosis to which Ulysses and Ahab allude. The action it makes present is that of metamorphosis on aIl the levels it can attain. If, for the sake of convenience-for this assertion is not exact--we say that what moves the novel forward is day-to-day, collective, or personal time, or more precisely, the wish to give a voice to time, then, in order to advance, the narrative has that other time, that other voyage, which is the passage From the actual song to the imaginary song, the movement that causes the real song, little by little although right away (and this "little by little although right away" is the very time of metamorphosis), to become imaginary, enigmatic song, which is always far away, and which designates this distance as a space to travel, an... (查看原文)

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• And yet, for Melville, what is there more important than the encounter with Moby Dick, an encounter that takes place now, and is "at the same time" always yet to come, so that he never stops going toward it by a relentless and disorderly pursuit, but since it seems to have no less a relationship with the origin, it also seems to send him back to the profundity of the past: an experience under the fascination of which Proust lived and in part succeeded in writing. (查看原文)

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