THE MOVEMENT OF WAVES AS A TEMPORAL FIGURE OF ORIGIN

Abstract

This article seeks to establish a timely connection between the narrative flow of children`s voices that appear in the first part of the book The Waves, by Virgínia Woolf, and the conceptual elaborations around time and history by Walter Benjamin, privileging the concept of Origin [Ursprung]. When going through the writings of the Berlin philosopher, we glimpse the assembly of a science of opportune time, and it is through a collection of images offered by childhood and literature that we can investigate the dephts of na intensive time. From these connections, we articulate a political conception of childhood, capable of dismantling the myth of the efficiency of linear and chronological time and operating new assemblies for thought and language, after all, is through language that these revelations can be operated. Through the convergence between literature and childhood, we capture the narrative images of the original time, in the rhythm of the Waves, as this dialectic between presence and absence.