PLASTICITY OF EARLY ŠIKULA´S FICTION

• الحاوية / القاعدة: Slovenska Literatura
• المؤلف الرئيسي: Vladimír Barborík
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: التشيكية
• منشور في: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slovak Literature 2009-10-01
• الموضوعات: narration; narrator; subject; short fiction
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/01161025--SL-2009-5-6-barborik-345-380.pdf

The study deals with the first of two collection of short stories written by Vincent Šikula Na koncertoch sa netlieska (It Is Not To Clap During The Concert) a Možno si postavím bungalow (I May Build Up A Bungallow). Both of them were published in 1964. Analysis of the category of narrator is a core of the work. The narrator is a key element in Šikula´s fiction. It is mainly about a position of the narrator in the narrative, about his attitude to the event he talks about. In the early period of Šikula´s fiction we can determine two both divergent and co-operative lines of narration. The first one is focused on depiction about it itself, on expression, prosaic objectification of the inner condition (“Me expanding to the world: depiction of the world by the subject) for which the feeling of injustice is characteristic: subjective hypostasis in major way makes an influence in the plan of depiction of the outward setting as well as the plan of the plot. Similarly with that line Šikula develops also a contradictory approach, in which the narrator pays attention to others, mainly to people representing social majority (“humiliated and offended“): subject of the narrator – without being excluded – makes a space for others (“Me is opened to the world“). There are not only two contradictory concepts of narration, but also of the subject. The second one becomes similar to characteristics, which was in regard with subject said by a French philosopher Rémi Brague: “I am nothing, I am not more than that movement of disappearing, which makes a free space for integration of that what it is.“