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The Nothing-Something of Loren Ipsum

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This essay argues that Andrew Gallix's novel, Loren Ipsum, explores a nothing-something analogous to the one Ophelia's utterings become in the fourth act of Hamlet, asking in its first chapter, "what is lost when nothing is lost? When it becomes something?" The question here--posed by the novelist Sostène Zanzibar, refers to a note that reads "NOTHING IS LOST" and is found on the corpse of a murder victim--resonates beyond this context and seems to serve as the grounding question of the entire novel.

Source: Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

DOI: 10.17613/frj8x-s0t81

Author: Rolls, Albert

Language: English

Topic: French Literature and Critical Theory

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7094950073

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