Hra „žitia“ a „písania“: románová konšpirácia a zápletka od romantizmu po postmodernizmus
The Game of ”Living“ and ”Writing“: Conflict in Novel-Writing from Romanticism to Postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: The article emerges from the inconsistency (see P. Ricoeur 1990: 167) between the universe of real events situated in the realm of contingency, and the universe of narrative discourse presented on the level of order, coherence and causality. On the basis of six novelistic examples from Romanticism to Postmodernism (Alfred de Vigny’s Cinq Mars (1826), Walter Scott’s Rob Roy (1817), Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers (1926-1943), Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita (1967), Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963)), it attempts to find out how novelistic narration developed and changed its techniques of coherent articulation over time. The instrument of breaking contingency is the principle of ordering based on conspiracy as well as real facts, but also narrative discourse and literary conventions. The above novels wil be looked at from the point of view of both conspiracy strategies as well as the construction of narrative conflict.

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