La réserve et le sens (Citizen Kane et Heart of Darkness)
Keywords:
Reserve, Secrecy, Citizen Kane, Heart of Darkness, MeaningAbstract
Focusing on the seemingly opposed examples of Citizen Kane and Heart of Darkness, this paper intends to examine the paradoxical relations of meaning and reserve as instanced by narrative – be it cinematographical or fictional.
The quest for meaning suggests that meaning can and should be culled from a reserve – e.g. the storehouse of History, memory or facts – but on close scrutiny it also reveals that there is no end to such quest, that somehow meaning is never "delivered" fully, unreservedly – there is no meaning without reserve. Yet such reserve, the very unattainability of the reserved, the secret, is the condition of meaning as quest – without reserve, there is no meaning.
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2015-12-12
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