« And in the sky, the dead and dancing sky, there are a million yesterdays » : l’horizon du passé dans City of the Mind de Penelope Lively

• Published in: Études britanniques contemporaines
• Main Author: Lanone, Catherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée 2011
• Subjects: P. Lively; architecte; collage; hantise; horizon; ligne de fuite; modernisme; palimpseste; passé; punctum; architect; haunting; modernism; palimpsest; past; vanishing line; litt; art; Arctic; Retour; Voit; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.2372; http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/2372

In City of the Mind, Penelope Lively probes into spatial and temporal horizons as she revisits the topos of the city of London as palimpsest. The protagonist, Matthew Halland, is an architect facing contemporary problems (such as a corrupt real estate developer) in a transient city filled with flick...