Alex Garland, "The Beach"; Michel Houellebecq, "Plateforme"

"Absentminded Prolepsis:  Global Slackers Before the Age of Terror in Alex Garland's The Beach and Michel Houellebecque's Plateforme."

by David LeHardy Sweet

Comparative Literature 59.2 (Spring 2007): 158-176.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40279366?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=absentminded&searchText=prolepsis&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dabsentminded%2Bprolepsis%26amp%3Bfilter%3D&ab_segments=0%2Ftbsub-1%2Frelevance_config_with_defaults&refreqid=search%3A44a0987af57be41a86fb52bb32b48925&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 

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