The trap: Inspector Hound's illusion game

Irene Ferreira de Souza Eisenberg

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In his popular play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) Tom Stoppard's character remarks: "A Chinaman of the T'ang Dinasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher." Such is Stoppard's literary universe: illogical, perplexing, inquiring, uneasy. A trap.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.3.2.97-112

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