Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: : This paper proposes that romantic love is shaped by a complex temporal structure in which past, present, and future are interconnected through a nonlinear narrative flow. Love is a continuous process in which lovers collaboratively construct and narrate a mythologized memory of the past, imbuing their relationship with meaning and projecting it forward as an ideal state to be regained. To elaborate on this proposal, I draw on Plato's theory of love as recollection and examine two twentieth-century works: Marcel Proust's Swann in Love and Marguerite Duras's Blue Eyes, Black Hair .
Source: Philosophy and literature
Author: Eran Dorfman
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411611175