A historical period can itself function as a waking dream
Evidence
It is the least oneiric book because the period it treats was itself a kind of waking dream. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 21
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 21
- XREF: connects to: Wartime paradoxically restores a fuller, more inhabited experience of night — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 35; The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia — Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West; This work is concerned with awakening from the nineteenth century — The City as Dreamworld and Catastrophe (+5 more)
Related
- The dream of the twentieth century was the construction of mass utopia
#expands(0.93) — Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West - This work is concerned with awakening from the nineteenth century
#corroborates(0.92) — The City as Dreamworld and Catastrophe
Broader Connections
- Wartime paradoxically restores a fuller, more inhabited experience of night
#exemplifies(0.70) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 35 - Writers unfreeze antique feeling stored in physical objects of history
#expands(0.70) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1148 - Historical fiction can mirror how human memory operates through leaps and loops.
#expands(0.65) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1139