Relaţia autor-narator la Milan Kundera, din perspectiva metatextului şi a metadiscursului
Milan Kundera: a Metatextual and Metadiscursive Perspective on the Relationship Between Author and Narrator

Summary/Abstract: Milan Kundera, a Czech writer whose novels have been entirely translated into Romanian and published by Humanitas publishing house, represents an interesting case in terms of authorial metatext. In the collection of interviews gathered in The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera speaks from outside of his novelistic world while making a role assumption. He describes the technique he himself, as an author and not as a mere narrator, uses to make interventions directly into the novel. Accordingly, in terms of novelistic world and building a metadiscourse, one can often notice a narrator who assumes the role of the author in Kundera’s novels. Since the author-narrator relationship has remained the subject of divergent perspectives among Kundera’s critics, our study aims at clarifying it. We take as a starting point a question raised for inquiry by the literary critic Nicolae Manolescu, which we intend to answer. We approach metadiscourse in relation to aesthetic distance and from the perspective of the art of the novel. In the end, we map the narrator’ metadiscourse by using the instruments of the cognitive approach to literature.

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