| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 西洋語文研究所 === 83 === The systematic arrangement of the coincidences underlines the
metafictional aspects of Gide's novel. I take first of all
Fielding's epic tone and Nietzsche's erosion of contours to
introduce Gide's idea of the pure novel. In the second chapter,
Scholes's narrative perspective is applied. With the intrusive
narrator's roles of maker and eye-witness, the author is
now seen working on his novel as a stage manager. The
playful tone serves to distract the reader's attention
from the accumulation of coincidences while it reflects the
dominance of the author over his characters. In the third
chapter, I adopt the Chinese-box structure. Edouard's diary
displays the metafictional self-reflexivity with the novel'
s formation incorporated. The constant distinction and
identification between Edouard and the intrusive
narrator suggest that the former present an analogous
portrait of the novelist at work. In the last chapter I focus
on Armond and the little counterfeiters. With these
shadowed characters as actors, Boris's suicide further
unfolds itself as an "alternative truth" based on news
items welded. These three narrative devices highlight the
author's power to construct reality.
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