Strikingly possible fictional worlds. Can Lubomír Doležel’s theory pass the test of Kundera‘s literary texts?

Ivanković, Katica. (2011). Strikingly possible fictional worlds. Can Lubomír Doležel’s theory pass the test of Kundera‘s literary texts?. Umjetnost riječi : časopis za znanost o književnosti, 55(3-4). pp. 115-137. ISSN 0503-1853

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Abstract

This paper explores the problem that arises from certain correspondence between the viewpoints of the writer Milan Kundera and literary theoretician Lubomír Doležel regarding the interpretation of Kundera’s prose works as historico-political documents. Both the writer and the theoretician dismiss such interpretations and argue that literary text is a pure fiction. Both offer different reasons and arguments to prove it. In this paper, the author concentrates on Doležel’s arguments that are largely based on his theory of fictional worlds. She uses determining features of his theory’s genesis and structure as starting points for the analysis of demarcation between fiction and reality in his theory and his understanding of documentarism in literature. Finally, the author also tries to detect the implicit component of Doležel’s theory that appears in his analysis of the works of Milan Kundera.

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