O Tempo em John Banville: de Einstein a Bergson

Autores

  • Nicholas Taylor-Collins Cardiff Metropolitan University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i1.3855

Palavras-chave:

Envelhecimento, John Banville, Henri Bergson, Birchwood, Doctor Copernicus, Albert Einstein, The Infinities, Temporalidade

Resumo

Há um claro envolvimento com as teorias do tempo na obra de Banville como um todo, desde em seus primeiros livros publicados até nos romances do século XXI. Considerando os conceitos de idade e envelhecimento, exploro como os personagens de Banville adotam e interrogam as ideias concorrentes de Albert Einstein e Henri Bergson sobre o presente e a passagem do tempo, deixando de favorecer o primeiro e priorizando o segundo. A concepção de Martin Heidegger de Dasein, um Ser em direção à morte, permite-me explorar como os personagens de Banville evocam a relação espaço-tempo de Einstein e séries de “agoras”, ou a Duração psicologizada de Bergson (Durée). Isso é confirmado na narrativa subvertida e anti-atávica de Gabriel Godkin em Birchwood (1973), na batalha pela autenticidade entre Copernicus e Rheticus em Doctor Copernicus (1976), e na forma como Hermes controla o tempo dos mortais e tenta o seu melhor para envelhecer em The Infinities (2009). Concluo que a preferência crescente dos personagens de Banville pelos tropos bergsonianos e einsteinianos indica uma aceitação e um envolvimento bem-sucedido com o processo de envelhecimento.

Biografia do Autor

  • Nicholas Taylor-Collins, Cardiff Metropolitan University
    Nicholas Taylor-Collins is lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He has published widely on both Shakespeare and modern and contemporary Irish literature. His monograph Shakespeare, Memory and Modern Irish Literature is forthcoming with Manchester University Press, while his co-edited (with Stanley van der Ziel) Shakespeare and Contemporary Irish Literature (Palgrave Macmillan) was published in 2018. In 2020 his Judge for Yourself: Reading Hyper-contemporary Literature and Book Prize Shortlists is published with Routledge. He is currently researching a monograph on death and dying in John Banville’s fiction.

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Publicado

20-02-2021

Edição

v. 22 n. 1 (2020): ABEI Journal 22.1 — Word Upon World: Half a Century of John Banville's Universes

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Critical Dialogues

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Copyright (c) 2020 Nicholas Taylor-Collins

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Taylor-Collins, N. (2021). O Tempo em John Banville: de Einstein a Bergson. ABEI Journal, 22(1), 159-172. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i1.3855