Stopy „autobiografie“ vo fikcii. Autentickosť diela Dominika Tatarku
Traces of the „Autobiograp hy“ in the Fiction (Authenticity at the Work of Dominik Tatarka)

Summary/Abstract: The article considers selected „autobiographical“ works by Dominik Tatarka and his fiction with autobiographical elements. As a typical modernist author, Tatarka focuses on the personal experience of the authorial subject. However, the writing is ambiguous and often contradictory in factual information. Comparisons with memoirs by his contemporaries (e.g., Eva Štolbová) clearly document Tatarka‘s strategic shift from autobiography to creative fiction. In thinking about „Autobiography-autofiction-fictional (novelistic) discourse“, what is at stake is not just the type of author or the type of theory that deals with the category of the author, but also the type of interpretation that the interpreter will accept and put to practice. We are dealing not only with a stereotypical distinction between post-structuralist and hermeneutic approaches of the interpreter, but with the finer differentiation of the multiple roles of the author. We are dealing with the relationship of the author – text, the text as the basis of the interpretation, as the platform of the author, as the mirror of the author (as fiction or as factual „data“), the text with an evident stamp of the author, autobiography as fiction (focus on the self – self-exhibition – brings with it a shift from own biography – in memories – to a desired image of oneself, a shift that is however difficult to identify).

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