NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES OF THE IRISH POSTMODERN NOVEL
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES OF THE IRISH POSTMODERN NOVEL

Author(s): Marcela-Cristina Stan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Education, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: Postmodernism; novel; imaginary; characters; multiple plans;
Summary/Abstract: The spatial circle of postmodernism narrows from Western Europe to the “most Western” point of the continent and that is to Ireland. Contemporary Irish fiction gives a new perspective on Irish history and that is a multilayered view of the puppa russa because it hides secrets behind its strata. The novel written in 2003 by Keith Ridgeway is entitled The Parts. The novel is formally structured in four sections: Firstly, Life, Death and Lastly. It is amazing that the author is able to set the reader into context by using only three words, issuing place, characters’ ontological status that of existence, of creation. Parts could have two diverse meanings: the first is formal because of its four obvious parts – the book itself is organized and this shows inner cosmogony but everything else is a chaos. The characters and the action are hard to follow because of the flashbacks and the brake of the text in multiple plans illustrated by icons and separatist lines and writing fonts.

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