Roland Barthes’s Masks in Bohumil Hrabal’s Gaps: Accounts of a Transfer, Transfer of Accounts

Slovo a Smysl

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Holt Meyer¹ 

[1] Universität Erfurt;

关键词: Bohumil Hrabal;    Roland Barthes;    přenos;    vypravěči;    autobiografičnost;    transfer;    narrators;    autobiographical;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The mention of Roland Barthes in a key passage of Bohumil Hrabal’s Proluky (Gaps) is read here asan index of a repetition and negotiation of the autobiographical, which should not be confused with the text itself being autobiographical, at least not with respect to its author (or the author’s wife,the nominal narrator of the text). Despite Jankovič’s insistence on not differentiating perspectivesand collapsing all of the speech of the text into the voice of a ‘single narrator who integrates all[other] voices’, close reading of the passage mentioning Barthes — which is also the passage inwhich the biological father of Hrabal appears in the form of two representatives and a pack of photographs— makes it clear that exact differentiation of both voices and media is essential, and thatBarthes’ studies of the voicing and temporality of the bourgeois novel must be brought to bear onthis, while of course accounting for the irony of the post-Marxist entry into a neo-Stalinist setting.These are the conditions for a transferred and transferring Barthes reading of Hrabal’s texts of the1980s (especially those deemed autobiographical) which has never been systematically and consequentlythought through.

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