The hybrid nature of Bellefleur makes it difficult to place its origins. Like most of Oates's work, it contains a vast network of allusions to world literature. In fact, it resembles the great novels of the nineteenth century, the chronicles of families and nations by Dickens, Tolstoy, Balzac, and George Eliot. It is of course in the tradition of the Gothic novel, but with particular reference to Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897); in Bellefleur Dracula appears as the Swedish count Ragnar Norst. Oates also blurs the line between fact.....
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