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Experimentation with forgeries in art and literature as a deliberate renunciation of authenticity and originality was practiced long before postmodern times. The following article shows a network of literary forgers playing around with apocryphal constructs. It monitors a chain reaction from the pioneer Cervantes in his meta-fictional second part of 'Don Quixote' to Jorge Luis Borges' "Pierre Menard" rewriting one chapter of Cervantes' classic and Umberto Eco's postmodern construction of Borges' invented character Bustos Domecq ending up at Pablo Katchadjian's "Aleph gaining weight". Radical appropriation between artistic resource and informal practice contributes to dismantled orthodoxy, subverted values, and attacked conventions. Plagiarism loses its harming effect; instead, authors celebrate different types of forgeries by simulation, bluff, lies, manipulation, or camouflage. Ultimately, by these artistic devices, they shed light on the affinity to processes of fictionalization itself.
Rezension zu Ingeborg Hoesterey: Pastiche. Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature. Bloomington, Indianapolis (Indiana University Press) 2001. 139 Seiten.
Hoesterey schließt mit ihrer Studie zum Pastiche in den verschiedenen ästhetischen Medien, die einerseits an ästhetische Diskurse der Gegenwart anschließt, andererseits eine Fülle von Beispielen vorstellt und kommentiert, die Kluft zwischen Theorie und Praxis: Das Buch bietet einen zugleich historischen wie systematischen (wenn denn in postmodernen Zeiten dergleichen noch möglich ist) Aufriß zur Ästhetik des Pastiches, und es trägt dessen doppelter Bedeutung als besonders zeit-gemäße und besonders verbreitete Kunstform Rechnung.