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

Mary Orr

doi:10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0007

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

Mary Orr

French

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Claude Simon
Subtitle of host publication	A Retrospective
Editors	Jean H. Duffy, Alastair Duncan
Publisher	Liverpool University Press
Pages	118-134
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9780853238577
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0007
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2002

Keywords

claude simon, le jardin des plantes, intertextual resonances, story line, symbolism, the garden of forking paths, borges

Access to Document

10.5949/liverpool/9780853238577.003.0007

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