| Abstract [eng] |
This master thesis analyses the emergence of the character created by Henry Miller in Miller's second trilogy, „The Rosy Crucifixion“. The trilogy covers a five-year period of the future writer's life while living in New York and preparing to emigrate to Europe. The analysis is complemented by segments from other, earlier novels. The study reveals the relationship between writing and the outside world, the author's self-reflection and search for autonomy. The problem of the thesis is based on the question of how the writer himself reflects on the process of writing and the search for his own self. Almost all of Miller's work is autobiographical in nature, with the author's characteristic reflections and contemplations on man's place in society and the vocation of the artist. However, it is the novels of „The Rosy Crucifixion“ trilogy that make an attempt to reflect in a coherent way on the misconceptions the would-be writer had about himself and about the nature of writing. This is why this trilogy has been chosen as the object of analysis in this thesis: it is not only a reflection on writing, but also a practice of it. And the phenomenological approach chosen for this study allows us to identify and describe the links that bind Miller's protagonist to his environment and to the world of art. The methodological basis of the Master's thesis is Paul Ricoeur's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics. The study reveals that the desire to express oneself is constantly met with resistance. This resistance is twofold: on the one hand, the hero's lack of confidence in his own writing or self-censorship, and on the other hand, the desire to secure his autonomy by renouncing his social ties and giving himself over completely to his work. The division of the hero's life into three different plans: the development of the ability to write, the social plan, and the plan of comparison with other writers, allows us to look at the writer's development from different perspectives. Miller's self-creation and the search for his own self are directly related to the view of the world as play. This view has a direct correlation with the view of writing as corresponding play, and therefore raises the question of the relationship between life and art and the connections presented by the hero's increasing distance from the real external world and his increasing immersion in the writing process and self-reflection. |
