Temps vécu et partagé dans Tempête de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Abstract

Tempête is placed under the sign of temporality; the story takes place in the closed world of a Korean island, an original place without history or memory, which seems capable of swallowing up the darkest past. Sheltered from the blows of time, the characters engage in a quest for identity, at the end of which it will be possible for them to live in the present and envisage the future. Throughout the story, their existential experiences of temporality reflect their psychological evolution. We will examine the relationship to time of the characters –suffered and painful, or on the contrary synonymous with ecstasy– and will observe the passage from a temporality suffered to a reappropriation of time in a chosen mode.