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LIFE IN QUEST OF NARRATIVE

Published 1 November 2002
Paul Ricœur
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Abstract

I shall take as my starting-point, as I cross this zone of criticism, the remark of a commentator: stories are recounted and not lived; life is lived and not recounted. To clarify this relation between living and narrating, I suggest that we first examine the act of narrating itself.

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Arts and Humanities