Metempsychosis,or “the transmigration of the soul,” was a thematic wink in 20th-century fiction. Proust used it, or in the opening paragraph of Swann’s Way,to joke about inserting himself in what would become a seven-volume künstlerroman. In Ulysses, it comes as a foolish pun from the mouth of Molly Bloom (“the reincarnation met him pike […]
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