The double: a devouring theme

Abstract

The present work corresponds to the Introduction of the book by Pierre Jourde and Paolo Tortonese entitled “Visages du double. “Un littéraire theme”. Nathan Université. Paris, 1996. The professor at the Universidad del Valle Alejandro José López has prepared the Spanish version of this text. Its purpose was to nourish the bibliography of the fantasy literature courses taught at this university. For this reason, an attempt has been made to include the literary and theoretical references cited by Professors Jourde and Tortonese based on the translations of said books that are available in the Spanish-language publishing market; Likewise, the terminological and syntactic decisions have been adjusted to the aforementioned purpose.