... and "he," contrasts with the other, more frequent, first-person narrator whom the English patient deploys in the telling of his story Just as a "man in the desert can slip into a name as if within a discovered well" (141), the English patient can slip into a new position within his ... redemption, and replaces it with the "voluntary effacement" of self sacrifice, a subversion which provides narrative with the "right to kill" (ioa). As Williams notes (40), the English patient's narrative becomes, from this perspective, an attempt to translate Katharine's death into a representation simil...

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