1. Death Comes For The Archbishop
... such a reading: Father Vaillant's nickname Trompe-la-Mort, (because he "had outwitted death so often, there was always the chance he would do it again" (120); and the grimly comic interlude of Doña Isabella, tearfully subtracting years from her biological age. The novel's essential temporal doubleness may be still further illuminated by Peter Brooks's provocative psychoanalytic speculation concerning narrative structure ... cautionary alternate routes for the narrative, paths to death not taken by Father Latour. The typical structure of these episodes of averted closure is established ...
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