O nespolehlivosti vzpomínek: případ autofikční trilogie J. M. Coetzeeho
On Unreliability of Memories: the Case of Autofiction Trilogy by J. M. Coetzee

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the fictionalized reminiscent narration (so-called autofiction) in J. M. Coetzee’s loose trilogy Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). The autofictional nature of Coetzee’s books is based on a double, intersecting pact between the author tion of the author’s life, but on the other hand the narrative contains marks of fictionalization, which call this depiction into question or cancel it. By this tension, Coetzee thematizes noetic questions of the nature of human memory and identity, and reflects on the very core of autobiographical writing. In addition, the paper briefly discusses Coetzee’s conception of so-called autrebiography.

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