In particular, a structuralist reading, by its own activity, always presupposes and appeals to the theological simultaneity of the book, and considers itself deprived of the essential when this simul- taneity is not accessible. Rousset: “In any event, reading, which is developed in duration, will have to make the work simultaneously present in all its parts in order to be global....Similar to a ‘painting in movement,’ the book is revealed only in successive fragments.