(NE)MOŽNOSŤ AUTOBIOGRAFIE V DIELE KARLA ČAPKA “OBYČAJNÝ ŽIVOT”

• Autorzy: Gabriella Petres Csizmadia

Warianty tytułu

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(Im)possibilities of autobiography in Karel Čapek´s “Obyčejný život”

• Języki publikacji: SK

Abstrakty

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The paper interprets “Obyčejný život”, a work by Karel Čapek in the context of the late 20th century autobiography theories. Previous interpretations are more or less dominated by the so called noetic aspects, however, the autobiographical difficulties raised by the work, the impossibility of imagining life as narration, and facing the multifacetedness of the self-raise the possibility of employing autobiographical considerations. An interesting feature of the analysed work is that it includes an embedded story, an autobiographical text, which has a double structure: the first part includes a traditional autobiography; the second part consists of the dismantlement, rethinking and re-evaluation of the first part. The aim of this anti-autobiography is to liberate the autobiographer from his illusions about the working of an autobiography and to point at the failure of idealized preconceptions about life story narration. An anti-autobiography works as meta-autobiography and rewrites the relationship of the autobiography and the autobiographer. It intends to riddle the autobiographer ś myth about his/her own autobiographer: it points at the fact that the autobiographer works with a distorting memory instead of a precise one and employs metaphorical narration instead of metonymical, presents only life fragments instead of a whole life story and instead of a homogeneous self it presents multiple, heterogeneous subject.

Słowa kluczowe

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY; ČAPEK KAREL; DISTORTING MEMORY; STORY; NARRATION

• Wydawca: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: World Literature Studies
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: 3 (20)
• Numer: 2
• Strony: 61 – 69

Twórcy

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Gabriella Petres Csizmadia

• UKF v Nitre, Mostová 495, 925 07 Nitra, Slovak republic,