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THE FIGURE IN THE TAPESTRY
THE FIGURE IN THE TAPESTRY

Author(s): Dana Percec
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: mirror effect; mistery; tapestries

Summary/Abstract: The existence of a mystery, be it even a literary one, transforms any story into a thriller, while its absence makes fiction, as well as life, boring. Starting from the metaphor of the Persian carpet in Henry James’s short story as the development of a mise en abyme – in its strictest sense of placing a secret correspondence in the deep structure of a work of art –, this paper looks at the different ways in which a similarly intricate and mysterious mise en abyme is achieved in both Tracy Chevalier’s The Lady and the Unicorn (2003) and Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Flanders Panel (a book that appeared in 1990 and was translated into Romanian in 2003).

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 131-138
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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