Abstract
The article argues that Claude Simon has drawn heavily on fugal patterns of composition in the writing of La Bataille de Pharsale and examines the aesthetic, thematic, and linguistic factors which determined this choice of musical model. Close analysis of the structure of Simon's novel and of its use of narrative voice and perspective reveals striking correspondences with the internal dynamics of the fugue's movements and its polyphonic variations, while consideration of the text's recurrent motifs shows an extended exploration of the thematic and etymological links between fugue and flight.
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