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The Possibilities of the Mediatized Body in Katalin Ladik’s Personal Mythology

Summary/Abstract: This research is a true reflection of the complexity of the contextual phenomena in the interpretation of Katalin Ladik’s personal mythology, as my analysis of Élhetek az arcodon? [Can I live on your face?], because of the manifold nature of artistic creation and the reciprocity of its individual segments, requires the exploration of multiple other areas even in an analysis from a literary perspective. This work builds on the literary tradition of autobiography and autofiction and, in accordance with the retrospective time-handling of autobiography, – although it surpasses tradition in multiple ways as a creation of the post-modern and neo-avant-garde – presents the life story and key moments of artistic creation from the perspective of the author. Through the narratological analysis of this work, I attempt to show how contemporary autobiographies and fictional works reflect a fragmented image of identity which makes the metaphorical interpretation of the life events impossible. Their multi-level narrative stratification and weave of referential and fictional utterances requires a subject with a stable identity behind the creation. In the second part of the paper, I explore the inseparability of the collective identity and the identity of the individual in female autobiographies, as the features of the former appear in the coordinate system of the cultural discourse of patriarchy to find their way into the textual fabric of the work, only to be deconstructed later.

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