Some of the great moments in the history of storytelling form the subject of this book: the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights, the Grail and the Decameron, but also Henry James and Joseph Conrad, Dostoyevsky and the detective novel. Starting from a meti ...
Some of the great moments in the history of storytelling form the subject of this book: the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights, the Grail and the Decameron, but also Henry James and Joseph Conrad, Dostoyevsky and the detective novel. Starting from a meticulous analysis of the forms and functions of narrative, Tzvetan Todorov finds himself engaged in a reflection that will call into question the precedence of the interior over the exterior, of the original over the derivative, of presence over absence, of being over the other.
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