Intertextuality and Second-hand literature

offenses liable to crime in Edgar Allan Poe’s The cask of amontillado and Lygia Fagundes Telles’ Come see the sunset

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s The cask of amontillado (1846) and Lygia Fagundes Telles’ Come see the sunset (2007), based on the theory of textual transcendence from Gerard Genette’s Palimpsests: second-hand literature (2010). As a relationship established between two texts, intertextuality is inevitable, and in that line of thought a work cannot exist without the influence of other writings previously written. Under that light, there is evidence that – although not explicitly – Telles’ short story dialogues with Poe’s in several aspects, which allows us to perceive the presence of hypertextuality.