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designations as victim, witness, juror or judge." And yet none of them is able to prevent the fatal course of events: "Like the analogous extratextual readers, they are trapped by the narrative situation—by the detective novel's peculiarity of being narrated backwards, inversely from the moment of the revelation of the criminal."
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Eliane, or "Elle", a beautiful young woman settles into a mountain village with her
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