Foucault i književnost
Foucault and Literature

Summary/Abstract: Even though the name of Michel Foucault is very often evoked in literary studies, his numerous works on the subject of literature have remained outside of the horizon of interest in literary theory. In fact, his work is regularly recruited for the schools of thought bent on overcoming the so-called textualist bias. Reading Foucault’s essays on writers such as Bataille, Klossowski, de Sade, Roussel, and Blanchot, as well as on theoretical notion of the author, the paper attempts to establish a working framework for what might be termed Foucault’s thinking of the literary as it refracts through three key concepts: transgression, the experience of language, and the author function. The aim is to show that such a concept of modern literature could be of significant heuristic value as it is in direct contradiction to the epistemological, conceptual, and interpretive models habitually used in theoretical and critical approaches replete with references to the work of Michel Foucault.

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