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De la voiture hippomobile au TGV : essai de cinétique littéraire

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The desire for speed awoke in the eighteenth century. The changes from horse manure to horsepower during the nineteenth century, from massive locomotion to individual locomotion at the end of the century, from external combustion engines to internal combustion piston engines, and from machines tracing linear paths along the ground to machines flying in circles in the sky in the twentieth century, all mark decisive thresholds in the acceleration, not only in the history of civilization, but also in that of literature. This essay on literary kinetics shows that the aesthetic superstructures are also linked to material infrastructure.