Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn Romanian Literature Series the narrator of this book

the narrator of this book plows through contemporaneous Korean mores with aplomb

combined with a language entirely his own

he confesses to three unsolved murders and recalls in great detail an adventuresome life in America and Mexico among cowboys and peasants

The Confidence-Man creates an elaborate and beautiful masquerade that asks: who in this world is worth our confidence

Diglossia and the Linguistic Turn Romanian Literature Series the narrator of this bookWith Flann OBrien widely acknowledged as a subversive genius of early postmodernism, Flore Coulouma places the question of language at the center of his literary identity. Connecting OBriens philosophy of language to the convoluted structure of his writing, Coulouma demonstrates how bilingualism and an ambiguous relation to language inspired OBriens satirical fiction, while developing narrative oppositions such as orality and literacy, truth and