Postmodernistički pristup biografiji: Poslednji testament Oskara Vajlda Pitera Akrojda
Postmodernist Approach To Biography: The Last Testament Of Oscar Wilde By Peter Ackroyd

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the postmodernist approach to biography through an analysis of the novel "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde" (1983) by Peter Ackroyd. The theoretical framework the essay uses provides a synthesis of relevant ideas on the subject: it touches on Julia Kristeva, William Irwin and Linda Hutcheon's observations on intertextuality, as well as Fredric Jameson and Roger Fowler's views on pastiche and parody. It also draws slight parallels to other Ackroyd's works which use similar literary methods and techniques. The essay concludes by reinforcing the fact that, despite the postmodernist distortions and all its playful ventriloquism, the novel is perfectly capable of providing a genuine insight into the life of its subject, managing to bring this character from the past alive to the reader - which is, the essay asserts, the only aim of any significance of a true biography.

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