Abstract
Gabrielle Marquet has been acclaimed as a poet and novelist in her native France. In the quasi-comic La cerise de porcelaine (1966), Agathe is an antique dealer whose lover has just died in her arms.Marquet orders the narrative, which turns on Agathe’s efforts to prevent discovery of the body, so as to reveal how self-absorption undermines her judgment and her affections. The denouement joins the myth of Narcissus to the parable of the Prodigal Son and points to the emptiness of the narcissist’s life.
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