With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time. Having the human subject ¿ the creator ¿ at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader¿s and viewer¿s reception. This text examines, among others, the work of Proust and Kafka.