Title Įžengiant į fikcijos miškus: Lietuvos partizanai Nijolės Gaškaitės- Žemaitienės, Mariaus Ivaškevičiaus, Teodoro Četrausko romanuose /
Translation of Title Entering the fictional woods: Lithuanian partisans in the novels by Nijolė Gaškaitė-Žemaitienė, Marius Ivaškevičius and Teodoras Četrauskas.
Authors Brazauskas, Nerijus
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis.. Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2011, t. 13, p.229-243.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] fiction ; possible worlds ; wood ; partisans ; novel ; history ; reader ; narrative text
Abstract [eng] The article theoretically and practically deals with the following questions: how is fi ction on partisans created, what is the relation between fiction and reality, how is history treated, to what reader is the text addressed, what reader the text creates in the novel Užverstų šulinių vanduo (The Water of the Filled Wells) (2000) by Nijolė Gaškaitė-Žemaitienė, the novel Žali (The Green) (2002) by Marius Ivaškevičius, the novel Tarsi gyventa (As if I Have Lived) (2004) by Teodoras Četrauskas. The hypothesis is raised that the wood for partisans was a “possible world”, which is defined by Umberto Eco as a cultural construct. The methodology of the present research is the conception of a narrative text proposed by Umberto Eco: “Woods are a metaphor for the narrative text, not only for the text of fairy tales but for any narrative text”. In the narrative text, an “empirical reader” and a “model reader” are most important. Any narrative text is a wood; both empirical and model readers and authors can wander therein. All three Lithuanian novelists differently walk in the fictional woods. Nijolė GaškaitėŽemaitienė enters the fictional woods through history, making an empirical reader relevant. Ivaškevičius creates a possible wood by using his resourcefulness. He produces a model reader who can creatively put an equality sign between history and reality. Četrauskas also creates a possible wood but through style which also generates a model reader who can indulge in language possibilities. The wood for partisans was a “possible world” in which both reality and fiction co-existed on equal terms. Partisans based reality on non-existing fiction, and the novelists created fiction on the basis of reality. Eco’s metaphor of wood as a narrative text could integrate a real wood and a wood of fiction into one formation. These woods get together because the narrative paths join them. [...].
Published Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2011