In The Invention of Ana by Mikkel Rosengaard, Rosengaard highlights how a story impacts all those who hear and the narrative holds the power to bend time allowing the story to interlace itself with reality. Through the life stories of Ana, the reader is enveloped by her past such as life under the Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, her father’s unexplainable suicide and more. The life events of Ana are also embedded in the narrative of a Danish intern just outside of New York City who writes about her. Each instance of the intern delving from his present to Ana’s past provides evidence where time becomes fluid making the reader hyper-aware of how fiction becomes their reality as Ana’s story becomes the intern’s reality. Therefore, time itself
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You’ve got to understand, time is determined by the objects around it. So if there were no mass, there would be no time or space either." (Rosengaard 29).
The notion of time here is emphasized as a construct dependent on a mass that varies throughout space producing a perception of a linear sequence, time. This definition allows the author to play with the concept of time throughout the book. Thus, the definition can is applicable to situations in the story where there is not enough or too much mass surrounding the character, allowing them to perceive time as either nonexistent or …show more content…
Time travel highlights both the positive and negative experiences of Ana, manipulating the way the reader observes time. When Ana and her fiancé, Isak, are in Spain and they cross time zones into Portugal and gain an hour. The moment is characterized as positive by the characters experience of a happy and romantic moment of crossing the bridge. Also, the experience of literal time travel connects Ana with a feeling of eternality. Ana and Isak cross a river described as an eternal being that has always and will always be streaming through time, “as it had done for thousands of years and would do long after all borders and time zones had been forgotten.” (Rosengaard 255). By displaying nature as outside of time, it presents itself as an object holding several times at once and therefore shows the deconstruction of time (Dinshaw 56). So, it is though time can resurrect past into present on a small scale – the hour Ana gains – and on a large scale, Ana’s past becoming the intern’s present (Dinshaw
You’ve got to understand, time is determined by the objects around it. So if there were no mass, there would be no time or space either." (Rosengaard 29).
The notion of time here is emphasized as a construct dependent on a mass that varies throughout space producing a perception of a linear sequence, time. This definition allows the author to play with the concept of time throughout the book. Thus, the definition can is applicable to situations in the story where there is not enough or too much mass surrounding the character, allowing them to perceive time as either nonexistent or …show more content…
Time travel highlights both the positive and negative experiences of Ana, manipulating the way the reader observes time. When Ana and her fiancé, Isak, are in Spain and they cross time zones into Portugal and gain an hour. The moment is characterized as positive by the characters experience of a happy and romantic moment of crossing the bridge. Also, the experience of literal time travel connects Ana with a feeling of eternality. Ana and Isak cross a river described as an eternal being that has always and will always be streaming through time, “as it had done for thousands of years and would do long after all borders and time zones had been forgotten.” (Rosengaard 255). By displaying nature as outside of time, it presents itself as an object holding several times at once and therefore shows the deconstruction of time (Dinshaw 56). So, it is though time can resurrect past into present on a small scale – the hour Ana gains – and on a large scale, Ana’s past becoming the intern’s present (Dinshaw