Premda romanopisac Jean Echenoz odbija postmodernističku etiketu, studija nastoji demonstrirati da su za njegov rukopis konstitutivna brojna obilježja postmodernističkih poetika te da njegov tekst uprizoruje ključne simptome postmoderne epohe. Konvergencija pripovjedno-stilističke i referencijsko-ontološke dimenzije promatrana je u autorovu ironijskom ili parodijskom pristupu tradicionalnim formama i modernističkim ciljevima, u njegovu ludičkom postupanju s jezičnom građom, zbivanjima i likovima. Posebna je pozornost posvećena ulozi i načinu predočavanja prostora, ljudskog tijela i pojedinih motiva paradigmatskih za svijet tehnologije i spektakla. Postmodernistička obilježja također su razmatrana u filmičnosti Echenozova diskurza, njegovim metanarativnim i samoreferencijalnim naglascima.Although the novelist Jean Echenoz rejects the postmodernist label, the study aims to demonstrate that his writing relies on numerous characteristics of postmodern poetics, and that it stages the key symptoms of the postmodern epoch. The convergence of the narrative and stylistic techniques with the referential and the ontological dimensions of the text are examined in the author’s ironic or parodic approach to the traditional prose forms and modernist goals, in his playful treatment of the linguistic material, events and characters. Special attention is dedicated to the role and depiction of space, human body and some items of paradigmatic value for the world of technology and spectacle. Postmodernist characteristics are also considered in the cinematographic aspects of Echenoz’s writing, in its metanarrative
and autoreferential accents
