The theme of literary plagiarism in Le 'Passage de l'Indiana' by Normand Chaurette

This article examines the theme of literary plagiarism in Normand Chaurette 's play Le Passage de l'Indiana, indicating how the play's dramatic structu re, resembling that of a psychological thriller, is also a model for compos ition as dramatic form and theme continuously refer back to each other in a game of mirrors based on repetition and return. The issues of plagiarism r elates, in fact, to the issue of individual identity--an identity that is q uestioned through processes of marking and borrowing by which personalities eventually dissolve into simple reflections.