Michel Butor/Carlo Ossola
Conversation on time
In Saint-Émilion, on May 28 2011, two men are chatting. One, Michel Butor, an author without equal, is in a strange mood : last year, he lost his wife and saw the publication of the last volume of his Œuvres complètes. The other, Carlo Ossola, feels that the moment is floating. They find themselves in a disused church, in a kind of limbo : it can't be any other way, it will be a question of time. Time, more precisely, which runs through Butor's work, and which is superimposed, like geological strata, in the body and mind of a writer over eighty years old. What does it mean to reread, decades later, the entirety of one's own work ? How does a place, as a monument, allow us to decipher time ? What is time once man is no longer ? It's high time - to say the least - that this gripping interview was republished.
Butor M., Ossla C., Conversation sur le temps, Paris, Éditions Canoë, 2023, 64 p.
ISBN : 978-2-490251-80-3
Price : 10 €
Publication : 3 October 2023
