A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. Andr Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch...
Le narrateur re?oit la visite de son ami Hubert et lui annonce qu'il ?crit un livre intitul? Paludes. L'ouvrage s'inspire de deux vers de Virgile ? propos de Tityre, le c?l?bre berger des Bucoliques: celuici, bien que poss?dant un champ plein de pierres et de mar?cages, est heureux...