{"title":"RESTORING CONTINUITY: NOTES ON HISTORY AND FICTION","authors":"JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ","doi":"10.1111/hith.12317","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>In 1935, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism, Paul Valéry tried to identify the origins of the crisis in a lecture titled “Le bilan de l'intelligence.” Things were better, he claimed, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events—that is, when “continuity reigned in the minds.” In this article, I discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is, in fact, indispensable for individuals and societies alike; using instances from great works of fiction, ranging from <i>Don Quixote</i> to the novels of Toni Morrison and Abdulrazak Gurnah, I suggest that fiction—the literary imagination of the historical past—might be uniquely adept at restoring continuity when it is broken.</p>\n </div>","PeriodicalId":47473,"journal":{"name":"History and Theory","volume":"62 3","pages":"427-438"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History and Theory","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hith.12317","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1935, as Europe witnessed the rise of fascism, Paul Valéry tried to identify the origins of the crisis in a lecture titled “Le bilan de l'intelligence.” Things were better, he claimed, when people were able to understand their present moment as the result of past events—that is, when “continuity reigned in the minds.” In this article, I discuss why that sense of continuity with the past is, in fact, indispensable for individuals and societies alike; using instances from great works of fiction, ranging from Don Quixote to the novels of Toni Morrison and Abdulrazak Gurnah, I suggest that fiction—the literary imagination of the historical past—might be uniquely adept at restoring continuity when it is broken.
1935年，欧洲见证了法西斯主义的兴起，保罗·瓦尔杰里(Paul valsamry)试图在题为“Le bilan de l’intelligence”的演讲中找出危机的根源。他声称，当人们能够把他们现在的时刻理解为过去事件的结果时，事情会更好——也就是说，当“连续性在头脑中占据主导地位”时。在这篇文章中，我将讨论为什么这种与过去的连续性对个人和社会都是必不可少的;我以伟大的小说作品为例，从《堂吉诃德》到托尼·莫里森和阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳的小说，我认为小说——对历史的文学想象——可能是唯一擅长于在中断时恢复连续性的。
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History and Theory leads the way in exploring the nature of history. Prominent international thinkers contribute their reflections in the following areas: critical philosophy of history, speculative philosophy of history, historiography, history of historiography, historical methodology, critical theory, and time and culture. Related disciplines are also covered within the journal, including interactions between history and the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and psychology.
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