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Titre Temps perdu, temps retrouvé. Rythme et sens de la mémoire dans le Haut Livre du Graal (Perlesvaus)
Auteur Jean-Jacques Vincensini
Mir@bel Revue Le Moyen Age
Numéro tome 108, no 1, 2002
Page 43-60
Résumé anglais Abstract Time Lost, Time Found. The Rhythms of Memory and Speech in Le Haut Livre du Graal (Perlesvaus). Le Haut Livre du Graal illustrates such well-known and general features in Arthurian romances as chronological distortions and other games with narrative time. The specific status of time in this romance will be examined at the hand of a corpus of episodes dealing with the issue of memory and characterised by mysteriously protracted forgetfulness and strangely sudden remembrance. The fact once established, we will attempt an interpretation. The starting point is the following: in this romance as in many others (for instance those by Chrétien de Troyes) memory is connected to speech. Perlesvaus, Gauvain, Arthur and Lancelot offer glaring instances of this in Le Haut Livre du Graal. Why can lost time only be apprehended in a jarring tempo through «fabulous hypertrophies»?
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