Auteur : Christine Lorre , Christine Lorre-Johnston

Journal : Commonwealth Essays and Studies

Secrets abound in The Lagoon – be they children’s secrets, personal quests for meaning, or secrets that remain illegible even to the subject, they are mostly overshadowed by the perspective or the personal experience of death. This article relies on Jacques Derrida’s thought on the secret, both as something related to the ineffable and as an inaccessible inner core, to sound the depth of this figure’s resonance in Frame’s stories.

Updated on 01/06/2011