Perec, Borges, and a silent solution for "La Disparition"
La Disparition is one of those books that many people feel they need not go to the trouble of reading because they know the procedure used to compose it, as if the text could be no more than the evidence of that which they already know. [...]they do not think much of the procedure itself, regarded a...
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Veröffentlicht in: | MLN 2012-09, Vol.127 (4), p.826-845 |
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Zusammenfassung: | La Disparition is one of those books that many people feel they need not go to the trouble of reading because they know the procedure used to compose it, as if the text could be no more than the evidence of that which they already know. [...]they do not think much of the procedure itself, regarded as little more than a trick, however well executed and elaborate. [...]in the forty years since it was published, even if it is still the case that many people keep mistaking the procedure for the book, the list of works devoted to analyzing its technical devices, the matter of its narrative, the borrowings and allusions, the self-references and autobiographical marks, among other aspects, is constantly growing, and reaching the condition of an exegetical tradition in itself. |
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ISSN: | 0026-7910 1080-6598 1080-6598 |
DOI: | 10.1353/mln.2012.0102 |