"Le Vice-consul": Specular Writing and Text Destruction

  • Rafael Guijarro García Universidad de Granada
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_THEL.2014.v29.n2.43289
Keywords: Narrative enunciation, metanarrative, mise en abyme, text destruction, Duras.

Abstract

Le Vice-consul (1965) by Marguerite Duras is a narrative text, included in the Indian Cycle, and characterized by a story within the story told by an intradiegetic narrator. In the present essay we will analyze how–through a specular writing which creates a series of formal and thematic correspondences between both stories–this metanarrative blurs the diegetic borders and destroys the conventional structure of the novel.

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Rafael Guijarro García, Universidad de Granada
Profesor Colaborador Doctor Universidad de Granada. Departemento de Filología Francesa.

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Published
2014-07-03
How to Cite
Guijarro García R. (2014). "Le Vice-consul": Specular Writing and Text Destruction. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 29(2), 345-362. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_THEL.2014.v29.n2.43289
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Vol. 29 No. 2 (2014)
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