Between being and becoming a Buendía : the dilemma in one hundred years of solitude.

• Main Author: Lye, Kit Ying.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18974
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Literature and Philosophy may be two very different fields of studies, but it is not impossible to read literature in conjunction with philosophical ideas. Derek Attridge states Derrida’s belief that “Literary theory, or poetics, has always consciously worked under the sign of philosophy” in his int...