In the Woods of Eternity ( Nei Bosci Eterni )
Fred Vargas
That Fred Vargas loves to pepper his novels with intertextual allusions
it is a peculiarity already well known to his readers. Some of these allusions
are almost banal for a cultured or otherwise conservative French public
with memories of school, which are very vivid, but to a foreign audience they often require the
pleasant effort to enter the universe of another's cu;ltural clichés.In his latest novel, In the Eternal Woods, intertextuality becomes the very architrave of the two narrative lines onwhich it is built....
it is a peculiarity already well known to his readers. Some of these allusions
are almost banal for a cultured or otherwise conservative French public
with memories of school, which are very vivid, but to a foreign audience they often require the
pleasant effort to enter the universe of another's cu;ltural clichés.In his latest novel, In the Eternal Woods, intertextuality becomes the very architrave of the two narrative lines onwhich it is built....