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The Garden of Forking Paths: intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes

The Garden of Forking Paths: intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes
The Garden of Forking Paths: intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes
This chapter evaluates Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes in comparison with Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths. It offers a literary criticism of Le Jardin des Plantes, and illustrates the inter- and intratextuality by citing the parallelism in the story line, events and symbolism.
claude simon, le jardin des plantes, intertextual resonances, story line, symbolism, the garden of forking paths, borges
118-134
Liverpool University Press
Orr, Mary
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Duncan, Alastair
Duffy, Jean
Orr, Mary
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Duncan, Alastair
Duffy, Jean

Orr, Mary (2002) The Garden of Forking Paths: intertextuality and Le Jardin des Plantes. In, Duncan, Alastair and Duffy, Jean (eds.) Claude Simon: A Retrospective. Liverpool, GB. Liverpool University Press, pp. 118-134. (doi:10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0007).

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This chapter evaluates Claude Simon's Le Jardin des Plantes in comparison with Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths. It offers a literary criticism of Le Jardin des Plantes, and illustrates the inter- and intratextuality by citing the parallelism in the story line, events and symbolism.

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Published date: June 2002
Keywords: claude simon, le jardin des plantes, intertextual resonances, story line, symbolism, the garden of forking paths, borges
Organisations: Modern Languages

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Local EPrints ID: 396095
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/396095
PURE UUID: a08eeb77-e219-47e1-a518-3b9979975509

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 00:46

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Author: Mary Orr
Editor: Alastair Duncan
Editor: Jean Duffy

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