- Tytuł:
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To See Oneself Through the Eyes of Others and Through the Eyes of Books: Perspective in Bohumil Hrabal’s Autobiographical Texts
Przeglądać się w innych i w książkach: punkt widzenia w prozie autobiograficznej Bohumila Hrabala - Autorzy:
- Tlustý, Jan
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2012784.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2018
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Tematy:
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Bohumil Hrabal
autobiografia
autofikcja
perspektywa
tożsamość
autobiography
autofiction
perspective
identity - Opis:
- This study analyses the use of perspective in the autobiographical trilogy (In-House Weddings, Vita Nuova and Gaps) and the late “journalistic” texts by the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. The article examines Hrabal’s play with perspective on several levels: on the narrative level, Hrabal experiments with the narrative voice and focalization, and views himself through the eyes of his wife Elisˇka, who is also the narrator of the whole trilogy; this strategy allows him to gain distance from the “I-perspective” and to touch upon sensitive moments of his life (particularly auto-censorship, his relationship with the Communist authorities, and various fears). Furthermore, Elisˇka’s view clashes with the view of Hrabal as a character in the narrative world, which results in an original autobiographical polyphony; the article presents a detailed scrutiny of these perspectives with regard to time. Drawing from hermeneutics as a way of self-understanding shaped by texts and culture, the analysis of perspectivity will demonstrate that Hrabal also views himself through the eyes of books and cultural images; additionally, the article points to parallels with Hrabal’s other works, particularly Too Loud a Solitude. Finally, Hrabal’s playful use of perspective concerns the question of identity: the textual self that appears in the stream of images manifests itself in constant motion, thus unveiling the non-substantiality and openness of human identity. In this way, Hrabal’s writing about himself approximates the view of self in Eastern philosophies (esp. Buddhism and Taoism − Hrabal’s sources of inspiration) as well as contemporary cognitive approaches to the theory of autobiography (Paul John Eakin).
- Źródło:
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Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo; 2018, 8(11) cz.1; 85-98
2084-6045
2658-2503 - Pojawia się w:
- Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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