Gene Wolfe’s ‘The Fifth Head of Cerberus’ (1972), or an Uncanny Science Fiction Revision of Proust’s À la Recherche du temps perdu: Remembrance of Things Past, Remembering Oneself
The question of memory constitutes the core of Gene Wolfe’s science fiction novella. The opening section can be read as a clear echo of the beginning of Du Côté de chez Swann. But the (implicit) Proustian intertext, prevalent though it is, coexists with references to Dickens (David Copperfield), the...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-11-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13790 |