Time

According to Aristoteles, history is the account, fiction is all the possible. The poet, the artist is therefore supposedly “grander’’ when compared to the historians, the account-makers, because fiction includes all the possibilities. All these possibilities are inevitably confronted with the notion of time. The greeks’s answer to time and to the actually non existence of time has been myth. They instituted narrative as the space between chaos; narration becomes an act of testifying time while robbing resources to create an homogenous accounting of time.1 That’s why, no matter what kind of language is employed - in music as well as in other time-related art forms - narrative is the conditio sine qua non to institute a necessarily fictitious relationship with time. Narrative, dramaturgy, is hence a