La figura del doble y la transformación de la enigmática identidad del personaje en / Le Locataire chimérique / de Roland Topor: un recorrido laberíntico

• Main Author: Mª Teresa Lozano Sampedro
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE) 2011-12-01
• Series: Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses
• Subjects: Roland Topor; fantastic litera-ture; metamorphosis; labyrinth; mirror; circularity.
• Online Access: http://webpages.ull.es/users/cedille/M2/06lozano.pdf

The theme of the double is presented in The Tenant through a constant swinging between the difference and the identity that is described by the trajectory of the change. The visual element serves especially as a sign of a problematic duality where both space and time become changeable, shifting, according to the character’s inner perspective. The theme of the perpetual cycle, which abolishes the difference between life and death, is part of the labyrinthine layout of this text where the reader, like the character, gets lost and finds his place in turn. Our aim in this paper is to show how the theme and the structure merge to lead to an open ending on a double question: the mysterious identity of the «original» and the genuineness of the existence of its «double».