Možné svety, naratívna fikcia a autofikcia: odpoveď Petrovi Koťátkovi

• Authors: Marián Zouhar

Title variants

EN

Possible worlds, narrative fiction, and autofiction: reply to Petr Koťátko

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion with Petr Koťátko about the nature of autobiographical and autofictional texts. It is argued that we approach all statements contained in an autofictional narrative text as readers in the as-if mode and read them as referring to an empirical author who styles himself or herself in the position of the narrator of the text. Based on the identity of the empirical author and the narrator, we pretend that the narrator has our a priori trust that the empirical author of the text is as the text portrays him or her; at the same time, we are always ready to relate the statements that we receive in the as-if mode to the real world outside the as-if mode. It is also argued that if the explanation of narrative fiction works is based on the notion of the as-if mode, the notion of a possible world becomes redundant.

Keywords

EN

as-if mode; autofiction; narrative fiction; possible worlds; the real world

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 321-329
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marián Zouhar

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic