Raum und Narration = Espace et Narration = Space and Narration (Colloquium Helveticum ; 47.2018)
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Since the 19th century, the intérieur has been the bourgeois space of self-reflection, an archive of objects that bear traces, a material utopia where the presence of objects produces a loss of time and space. Working for an international interior magazine, I came across several strategies that photographers use to bring an interior to life, to stage a feeling of a private sphere. These strategies are identical with the ones that have been applied in 19th century literature: It’s the same concern with objects, the discovery of the narrative power of details and traces, a search for „truth“ on the surface of things. My article leads through some fictional intérieurs, a photo shooting on the Maldives and a small hotel in L. A., where a designer brought all the ideas together to create a space that narrate of its own accord.
Einleitung
(2018)
Ein besonderer Fokus der hier versammelten Aufsätze liegt auf der Darstellung des Raumtyps Innenraum, der - wie die unterschiedlichen Lektüren aus verschiedenen Philologien vorführen - ein weitreichendes narratives Experimentierfeld darstellt. Im Zentrum der Auseinandersetzung steht zum einen die Frage, wie literarische Räume und Raumvorstellungen konstituiert und in eine narrative Progression übersetzt werden, zum anderen die Frage nach den unterschiedlichen - symbolischen, allegorischen, soziologischen oder poetologischen - Funktionszusammenhängen, in die das literarische Interieur eingebunden ist.
Un Jésus postmoderne
(2018)
[Rezension zu:] Thibault, Bruno: Un Jésus postmoderne. Les récritures romanesques contemporaines des Evangiles. - Leiden-Boston: Brill Rodopi 2017 - (Chiasma ; 37)
[Rezension zu:] Ette, Ottmar: WeltFraktale - Wege durch die Literaturen der Welt. - Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag 2017.
[Rezension zu:] Pillet, Fabien: Vers une esthétique interculturelle de la réception. - Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2016.
The article investigates a particular mode of semanticization of space in storytelling: it explores cases of narrative de-semanticization of space, especially of interior space. The focus of this endeavor is on the relation of the narrative creation of space and narratological self-reflection. In a reading of Descartes' "Discours de la méthode", the article exposes how the philosophical construction of the spaceless "je pense, donc je suis" diminishes the production of spatial meaningfulness provided by the narrative from which it emerges, thus exhibiting the disparity of Descartes' philosophical and narrative concepts of space. - Unlike Descartes' "Discours", Richard Ford's story "I'm Here" (from the volume "Let Me Be Frank With You") performs spatial desemanticization by staging physical destruction of interior space. The article examines how the narrative, by introducing the disintegration of a home, constructs its own starting point and thus exposes its self-generation originating in an imaginary lack of spatial significance.
An important motif of twentieth century fantastic literature is the exploration of a house or a room whose furniture and spatial organization are disconcerting. Such a motif is presumably symptomatic of a deep questioning on space structure understood according to Euclides and Newton ; it also echoes the anthropological crisis of the very notion of "place", a crisis mirrored in literature, visual arts and cinema, which can be deciphered in particular descriptive passages signaling the aporetic turn of narrative in fictions by J.-L. Borgès and André Pieyre de Mandiargues.