Time of Desire: The Novel of Jeanne Hersch Authors Marta Segarra Centre Dona i Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona Keywords: eanne Hersch, novel, temporality, desire Abstract The only novel by the philosopher Jeanne Hersch (Temps alternés, 1942) consists of a reflection on time, and on the relationship between the subject and the Other. It describes two types of temporality: an eternal present, when the narrator as an adolescent lives the day without any goal, and the present of adulthood, made of past memories and projections to the future. The novel also explores two possibilities in the relationship between the subject and the Other: total distance, marked by her body’s closure, or fusion, materialized in the porosity of a pregnant woman’s body. These alternatives are summarized by the opposition between love and desire. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Dossier 2 License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
