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The article takes up the problem of the structure of the last work of Mishima Yukio, the tetralogy Hōjō no umi (The Sea of Fertility). The book is considered to be Mishima’s opus magnum and his literary testament for the next generations. The article focuses on the Buddhist concept of transmigration which seems to be the writer’s structural trick on readers, a kind of perversive play in which the readers are not able to judge whether Mishima really believes in the concept of transmigration (jap. tenshō, sanskr. saṃsāra) or he is only mocking. Why did Mishima make this particular concept the axis of his book? The article aims at giving the answer to this question and suggests that the ultimate conclusion is yuishiki “consciousness only” (sanskr. vijñapti-mātratā).
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In this article we focus on the problem of memory realised in the artistic space of E.G. Vodolazkin’s Aviator. The aim of the study is to analyse memory as a mechanism shaping the novel’s structure. In order to reach this goal, it seems important to explore the structure of the literary text, to understand the meaning of categories of memory and memories, while searching for key ideas of the text. The analysis reveals the significance of the category of memory, emphasising not only the specificity of the novel’s fictional and compositional structure, but also revealing a complex of philosophical ideas and motifs related in particular to understanding the theme of memory as overcoming time (including death) and the issue of spiritual identity formation.
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The objective of this paper is to reflect on some features of David Toscana’s novel Los puentes de Königsberg. In this contribution by the Northern Mexican writer there are unusual parallelisms between different realities of the cities of Monterrey (Mexico) and Königsberg (East Prussia), which become the basis of the structure of the novel. In this framework the author situates certain eccentric characters, providing them with a “double life”, a real Mexican one and an imaginary East-Prussian one, in order to contrast the cities and validate the superiority of Königsberg, the actual protagonist of the novel. Toscana uses selected criteria, such as scientific and cultural contributions by the cities, their different historical fates, and the moral attitudes of their inhabitants towards discrimination, war crimes and gender violence, which implies a severe critique of Monterrey’s society. The set of parallelisms between the cities is totally convincing as a fictional structure and emphasizes the most prominent quality of Toscana’s analysed prose.
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