The Convergence of Tripartite Temporal in the Refuge of the “Home”; Reflection on the Poetics of Space in Hector Malot’s Novel, In Family

Abbassi, Ali; Abaï, Andia; Sharifi, Sarah

doi:10.22099/jcls.2025.53236.2114

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Prof in French Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Prof in French Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

³ PHD Student in French Language and Literature,, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22099/jcls.2025.53236.2114

Abstract

Human perception of the past in the form of "memory" or "recollection" plays a special role in the spatio-temporal continuum of the mind. Time and space constitute two stable pillars of the continuum. The fundamental question is how can the continuity of past-present-future time in the space of the home be explained by human perception? For Husserl, the phenomenology of time appears as a stable continuum that always continues. Husserl and Bachelard's phenomenological analysis of "time" and "space" leads to an abstract understanding of how the continuity between these two elements is observed. Aspects related to the perception of the three stages of time in the domestic environment are explored in Hector Malot's novel In Family. For Perrin, the heroine of Malot's story, the past is evoked through the soothing atmosphere of her shelters and at the same time she draws a dream of the future; because "home" is the space where dreams emerge and lost memories become actualized.

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children's Literature Studies

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