NARRATION ABOUT THEREADER: LITERATURE IN DISPUTE WITH THEORY.

The article is dedicated to phenomenon ofliteratures dispute with idea about itself, insisted upon by modern theory of aesthetics and ideology ofreading. The subject under review is a specific form of such dispute: the one that has been expressed inthe form of narration about the reading individual. The hero of such narration is often described as acarrier of mind which reproduces cultural mythology of reading and literature, contemporary to him.He is also a bearer of the event which shapes the main plot of a writing.Address to such kind of heroes creates an autoreflective directionality for literature: building aplot around readers figure, literature exposes situation of reading (and, wider, the problem of functioningof literature-artistic and literature-critical product in the history of the reader) to metaliteratureexamination. Such kind of autoreflective tendencycan be found in a row of literature implementation.The earliest example of this is obviously M. Servantes novel, whose heros story lines up polemicwith traditionalist cult of sacral mimetic reading. In romantic prose of this kind autoreflective tendencydiscovers itself in narrative polemics with contemporary myth about literature as the highest dimensionin a human life. In works of Stendhal, Merimee and Flaubert - in dispute with cultural myth of literaturesreference and cognitive virtue of reading, myth, created within aesthetics of realism. The subjectof this article is specifics of artistic reflection in regard to contemporary philosophical and aestheticalconcept of literature, formulated in narrations about readers of modernism and postmodernism.In literature of modernism in stories about readers we can find polemics with modernistic cult ofliterature as a form of magic (J.-P. Sartre) transformation of life. It is being examined on material ofCanettis Blinding and G. Ayzenrayhs Dostoevsky-like adventure. In attempt to substitute reallifecontext with library cult (in the former) and with event, designed according to the literature pattern(in the latter), main characters of the writings fail.In postmodernism literature about the reader we can discover polemics with postmodernistic ideaof literatures loss of its own functionality. Literatures reaction to such thesis is being investigatedbasing on A. Byatts novel Possession and the writing of Latin-American author C.-M. DominguezThe House of paper.

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