In other words, it is really a matter of crossing space and time through building and recounting. In the course of this analysis, I will ask myself if one ought not to push this analogy much further, to the point of a genuine intertwining, an entanglement between the architectural configuring of space and the narrative configuring of time. Following the publication of the three volume series, Narrative and Time, Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) attempts to flesh out the connection between spatial and temporal storytelling in an article titled, Narrative Architecture: To begin with, I would like to put an analogy in place, or rather something that appears at first sight to be only an analogy: a narrow parallelism between architecture and narrativity, in that architecture would be to space what narrative is to time, namely a ‘configurative’ process a parallelism between on the one hand constructing, that is, building in space, and on the other hand recounting, emplotment in time. She recognizes the forward moving motion of a narrative, the energy of language, is “less inside the story than inside your mind as you construct sense.” Since Aristotle first taught us to use the arc to construct sense, readers have organized the time and space of a narrative with this in mind. Sebald’s The Emigrants revealed what was there all along: language is a force within us.
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