| Abstract [eng] |
According to the most prominent premise of genetic criticism, the textual changes fixated on the pages of the two-dimensional manuscript implies a non-static creative process. In its turn, the objective of manuscript analysis is to organize the writing and revision acts into the intellectual construct of the avant-texte (cf. Pierre-Marc de Biasi, Dirk Van Hulle, Sally Bushell). Yet the scholarly account of literary genesis does not necessarily lead its reader to understand (or rather imagine) the very dynamics of how the work was produced. In other words, the object of genetic research – the creative process – needs to be reconsidered in the light of poetics used to reveal it. We argued that the problem of non-processuality within the genetic accounts lies in the way the narrative of reconstruction is organized (cf. João Dionísio, Almuth Grésillon, Catherine Violett). Does this narrative conceptually define the creative acts in the manner that at the moment of reading the analysis the imagination of its reader is opened to map the inscriptions as genetic motion? We tackled this question by suggesting the alternative model for carrying out the reconstruction of genesis. In its turn, the avant-textes of modern manuscripts were presented. First, the digital files of the novel "Ch." (2021), written by a contemporary Lithuanian author Tomas Vaiseta. In the analysis the processuality of the work’s fluctuating narrative was displayed. Second, the avant-texte of Lithuanian canonical author Romualdas Granauskas, whose novel „The Yellow Town“ (1975) reaches us in a form of a primary holograph draft. The processuality of textual changes between draft and published versions, which differ to a high degree, were discussed by invoking the concept of anchor-phrases. Third, the avant-texte of British classic John Fowles’ "The Magus" (1965; 1977) was examined. The three endings of the novel were interpreted by the means of mathematic variables. We revisited the theoretical framework of genetic analysis by asking what the options of the genetic critic are to initiate his or her reader’s imagination to differentiate between the dynamic aspects of literary genesis. As a corollary, we reactivated the problem of defining the creative process. |
