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AbstractBetween languages : Between by Christine Brooke-Rose — Between by Christine Brooke-Rose is an experimental novel which, like its heroine, a conference interpreter, is in constant movement between languages, places and identities. The space "between" suggests something of the "translational culture" which, according to Homi Bhabha, is increasingly the culture of our present.
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To what can we attribute the attachment of novelists—a good number of them in any case—to the history and memory of their art? Why does it traverse and often motivate the vast body of their comments on fiction? At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this attachment also referred to the novel's success as the main literary genre (a success that called for selecting and tracing paths through a prodigious and ever-increasing output) and the reality that its memory today is more fragile than that of other genres and other arts. A genre without rules or a fixed model, fiction, to be recognized, insists that we recall what it has been—an effort that demands greater care and attention within a context of aesthetic renewal comparable to that of the twentieth century while it lasted. But another reason for novelists' attachment to the history and memory of fiction is that it deals with the experience of duration and transformation. This means that its own narratives are always, in one way or another, narratives of time and change.