SOURCE: “Another Purloined Letter: Text, Transparency, and Transcendence in Le Misanthrope,” in The French Review, Vol. 66, No. 1, October, 1992, pp. 26-37.
In the following essay, Riggs, focuses on the character of Alceste and his attempts to discern text from reality in Le Misanthrope.
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