Mut(e)ability: issues of uniqueness, equivalence and human agency in Schwob's Dialogues d'utopie

A commitment to the thinkable specificify of a particular century, with literature as the apparent object, can provide intimations of the currency-lives of words. Authorial names become a vector of differentiation, accumulating suggestive powers through their constant positioning and re-positioning in the retrospective cortstruction of cultural change. Epochal generalities flow somewhat paradoxically from an arrangement of proper nouns: