Widma i szczeliny. Próba lektury widmokrytycznej Tajemnicy Philippe’a Grimberta
Spectres and Cracks. An Attempt on Hauntological Reading of Philippe Grimbert’s Novel The Secret

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the possibilities of applying spectrality theories derived from the writings of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok as well as Jacques Derrida and Julian Wolfreys to literary research on the example of the post-memorial, auto-fictional novel of the French writer and psychoanalyst Philippe Grimbert titled The Secret. The aim of the novel analysis is to indicate the specific structural gaps occurring at its various levels (narrative, diegetic world, relationship between the author and the narrator, re- lationship between the content of the novel and the author’s actual biography) which are places where ghostly entities and forms appear. Discovering and exorcising them is the very essence of the work of (endless) interpretation, both in Grimbert’s novels and in all literary texts.

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