Remembering and Narrating in Borges’ “Funes the Memorious” and Camus’ the Stranger
Description:
In The Stranger, a novel by Albert Camus, and in “Funes the Memorious,” a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, the homodiegetic narrators have a significant effect on the referential aspect of their personal experiences. Chronologically these remembered experiences are positioned before the moment when they are narrated. The act of remembering is thus a form of subsequent narration. In both texts, memory is a project rather than an object because it is recounted and not found. In the sense that it…
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Date:
August 2013
Creator:
Stroud, Carl Eugene
Partner:
UNT Libraries