Видавництво Національного університету «Острозька академія»
Abstract
Дослідження спрямоване на встановлення семантичного та стилістичного потенціалу онейричного повістування в романі Дж. М. Кутзее «Waiting for the Barbarians». Онейричні епізоди розглядаються в роботі як форми психонаративу, який є не лише засобом розкриття внутрішнього світу персонажа, а й слугує певними смисловим кодом, що зумовлює процес розуміння та інтерпретації зазначеного художнього твору.
(The study aims at revealing semantic and stylistic potential of dream narrative in J. M. Coetzee’s «Waiting for the Barbarians». Dream narrative is regarded as a form of psychonarration. The latter is viewed from two perspectives: as a special narrative technique applied to portray the personage’s inner world, his/her psychological and emotional state thus rendering the author’s perception of objective reality; and as a verbal presentation of situations and events which describe
the character’s inner life. The article suggests an idiogenre approach to the study of psychonarration which puts together two features of a literary text: its genre and the author’s idiostyle. Dream narrative creates the alternative story of the main character’s painful and ambivalent process of personal growth, his desire to disentangle himself from an imperial regime.
Dream narrative is manifested by a sequence of fragmentary, non-linear episodes bound via a montage technique. Montage allows the author to link incongruous or even absolutely different notions, events, and characteristics. Being an expressive compositional device, montage highlights essential and important episodes in the plot structure and links real and unreal
events. Thus, dream narrative performs two key functions in the novel under analysis: on the one hand, it models the image of the character; on the other hand, it serves as a special code which gives the reader an access to the text semantics as well a directs the program of text understanding and interpretation.
