| Abstract [eng] |
This thesis presents an analysis of Ričardas Gavelis’s (1950-2002) prose fiction. The thesis theoretically conceptualises the deconstructive principle of prose writing, actualises the writer's reception and employs the unresearched legacy of Gavelis's archive by combining monographic research of the author’s oeuvre (with analysis of the writer’s socio-historic contexts, his reception, the contents of the manuscript archive) and deconstructive interpretation of his texts. The theoretical part presents methodological premisses, a deconstructive reading and an interpretation method, its origins, the main principles and notions of deconstruction by highlighting the questions of their application. The research part contains an analysis of selected Gavelis's prose texts by employing the chosen principles of deconstruction and focusing on the deconstructions of the narrator and the narrative, the deconstructiveness of the textual “I” figure, the use of irony in the reconstruction of logocentric thought and writing. The conclusions claim that Gavelis's theory of internal inhabitants testifies to the deconstructivity of the “I” figure, the multitudinousness of the split subject and its indeterminable identity. The writer created an antidemiurgic, labyrinthine deconstructive narrative that distinguishes itself with the formula: “it was this way, that way and another way – every kind of way at the same time, side by side”. The opposition to the system (usually the Soviet one), that enforces a single true understanding and meaning, in Gavelis's prose acquires features of irony and irrationalism. |
