1. Death Comes For The Archbishop
... frequent references to other potential early ends for the protagonist. Furthermore, many of the embedded narratives-particularly those of Fray Baltazar or the Padres MartÃnez and Lucero-function as 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 early, in the "cruciform tree" scene ... of the "large unknown factor" (25) of desire for the other, the recurrent energy that maintains the vital tension of life. He finds an evocative allegory in mythology, in Aristophanes' ta...
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