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This chapter studies the relationship between exile and time. The two writers studied in this chapter, Jorge Luis Borges and Marcel Proust, view man as a banished spirit in the monstrous chaos of infinity and depict man’s acute feeling of being exiled from his memory, respectively. Both writers are preoccupied by a cosmic exile in time that is ultimately redeemed by art—their construction of the fourth dimension in their literary creation can find analogy in the magic mirrors of M. C. Escher’s painting.
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Zeng, H. (2010). Cosmic Exile and the Fourth Dimension in Escher, Borges, and Proust. In: The Semiotics of Exile in Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113114_6
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