Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Professor in French Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of French Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 French Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The temporal-spatial of human perception leads to the formation of a mental continuum; Remembering the past allows one to relive past experiences, and imagining the future causes a separation between human and present. The space of “home,” as a space, in which humans continually seek refuge, occupies a position distinct from other spaces. This research aims to achieve the perception of spatial time in the space of the home. How can the continuity of past-present-future times in the space of the home be explained by human perception? To answer this question, we first examine, through Husserl's phenomenological approach, how humans perceive "time." Then, based on Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space, the relationship between spatio-temporal perception and the space of the home will be studied. Finally, drawing on the theories of Husserl and Bachelard, we analyze the position of the home as a place of convergence of tripartite temporal-spatial perceptions in Hector Malot's novel In Family. Accordingly, the "house" is a space that has a particular function for the adolescent heroine of the story during her spatiotemporal experience, as it leads to the realization of the "memory" and the "dream" in her mind. Therefore, the space of the home can act as an organizing force to create continuity between the three times of human perception.
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