The story told by Event has
as its subject…its narrator. When a person tells what has happened to him or
what is happening to him he is using a classical form of the narrative:
there is so much writing in the first person! In actuality , this classical
first person is based on a split: I is the author of two different actions,
separated in time: one consists of living, the other consists of writing…Sollers
endeavor is radical: he intends to do away with the insincerity that is
connected with all first-person narration. No truth can be spoken about an
event. If we give up words in their function of naming things and allow them
their own life, then a language of truth begins to speak
Roland Barthes
Event, Poem, Novel
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