HERMENEUTICS OF SELFNESS IN THE NOVEL DIARY OF A
BAD YEAR BY J. M. COETZEE Cover Image

ХЕРМЕНЕУТИКА СОПСТВА У РОМАНУ ДНЕВНИК ЛОШЕ ГОДИНЕ Џ. М. КУЦИЈА
HERMENEUTICS OF SELFNESS IN THE NOVEL DIARY OF A BAD YEAR BY J. M. COETZEE

Author(s): Tatjana S. Jovanović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Philology
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: idem-identity;ipse-identity; other; borders; non-places; exile

Summary/Abstract: Taking into account the views of Paul Ricceur in the works Selfness as the Otherness (Soi-meme comme un autre) and Time and a Story (Temps et recit), this work deals with the constitution of selfness and the problem of a narrative identity in the novel Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee. Through the relationship among two men and a woman, the reader views the self-understanding as a dynamic process between them and ipse identity, between the sameness and numerous inner differences or different othernesses in which the narrative identity intervenes The category of the othernesses ( the other world, the otherness of another person and the otherness og the selfness), the category og recognition, the relationship between ethic and moral responsibility are used as a contribution of the phenomelogy of a „capable man“.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2015
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 145-159
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Serbian