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World Literature Studies
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2013
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vol. 5 (22)
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issue 1
76 – 91
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The paper deals with unreliable narration in the three prosaic works by Ladislav Fuks (1923−1994) from the 60ties of the 20th century: „Pan Theodor Mundstock“ (1963), „Variace pro temnou strunu“ (1966) and „Spalovač mrtvol“ (1967). Although narrative modes of these novels are different, just like category of unreliability can explain discrepancies of the text and of the construction of its fictional world. The researcher understands unreliability as a consequence of a violation of protagonist ́s personality, (schizophrenia, pubescent hypersensitiveness, or a hiding sadistic psychopathy). Unreliability in analysed texts which rank among Fuks’s most famous books must be perceived in scope of writer ́s ingenious and wide-ranging play with a reader. At the same time it can be rated an articulation of the time of the Nazi danger, which the narration of all texts is situated to, of the time endangered human dignity and liberty.
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The main aim of the text is to analyse the narratological category “unreliability” in relation to the basic domains within which it is defined by the post classical narratology. The basis for the analysis are various texts − both the fictional and the nonfictional nature. In the scope of this study are fictional and nonfictional speakers and characters in relation to the three dimensions of textual worlds which are here understood as the strategy of construction of the meaning: the first is the domain or the construction of “truth”, the second is the domain or construction of “self” and the third one is the domain or constructing of the whole of the fictional world − the domain of the text. The author suggests in his study that while the first two domains are clamouring extra textual control activities, which is the relationship between text and context, only the third domain allows us to perceive unreliability as a narrative category as a category of narrative analysis.
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The paper is aimed at the category of unreliability of the narrative text. The author builds on narratological works which consider fictional and historical texts as different types of narratives. Essential difference can be identified in the sphere of reference of these texts and in both basic levels of common narratological model of analyses – in the level of discourse and story. The paper presents a set of mutually linked differences as a border between two different contexts of “unreliability”. Quotation marks express an opinion that narrator’s unreliability (theoretically elaborated in connection with fictional narrative) cannot be analogically applied in analyses of “unreliable narration” in historical text. After a brief summary of parallel aspects of narrativity, the author pays attention to giving reasons for two different regimes of “unreliability” as well as to selection of suitable terminology.
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World Literature Studies
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2013
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vol. 5 (22)
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issue 1
45 – 61
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Although classical psychoanalysis and its off-shoots has not brought any “theory or narration” that would become part of literary narratology, it has postulated several basic elements of “general psychoanalytic narratology” as implicit psychoanalytic theory of narration (the therapeutic function of narration, dialogic part, in-depth interpretation, the thematization of interpersonal relationships). At the same time, the article analyses how the interpretation of the dynamic (narrative) aspect of literature has contributed to the creation of psychoanalytic theory itself and the role played by the reliability or unreliability of the narrator in it.
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In the recent years, the literary scientific narratology instrumentation has found the possibilities of its self-realization in the field of other fictional or factual narratives as well, e.g. in the film, psychology or journalism. In historiography, especially in the so called micro-history, there are texts having the shape of a story, which makes their structure similar to literary narrative texts. Also they could include the case of the peasant Martin Guerre of the 16th century. He left his wife Bertrande in the French village of Artigat for an unknown place. After years had passed, a man claiming to be Guerre arrived and Bertrande admitted him into her house. This famous case was also published in the form of a historical document by the Canadian historian Natalie Z. Davis. Against the background of the above mentioned text, the aim of this paper is to examine the possibilities of the application of the narratological instrumentation (e.g. focalization), and especially the issue of reliability and its possible semantic refinement towards the story and its presentation as well as to its reference level.
World Literature Studies
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2013
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vol. 5 (22)
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issue 1
92 – 104
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The aim of this essay, which deals with the novel Medvědí román (The Bear Novel) by Jiří Kratochvíl, is to describe and analyse the way how unreliable narration works. The narrative structure of the given text is constructed according to a “terrace-like hierarchy” that generates several mutual related narrative levels. In other words, what we face here is a multiple meta-narration. The unreliability of the text follows from narrator’s features that are traditionally attributed to him, i.e. especially his ability to give us relevant information about the world he exists in. The narrator’s strongly subjective modal attitude towards the fictional world results in the way we interpret him and accordingly in the fact that we call him unreliable. Besides its commonly detectable features unreliability is also based on the above mentioned macro-compositional technique, that is, a meta-narration. In that case the category of unreliability is derived from the narrator’s ontological status that at none of the narrative levels appears to be ontologically definitive. On the contrary, the mechanism has the ability to generate other and higher levels of narrators.
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