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Book SynopsisThe book addresses students and professors interested in comparative literature and the complex problematic of modernity/postmodernity, hermeneutics, literary, and cultural theory within the past few decades of the 20th century. The author explores the works of Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, M. Proust, W. Faulkner, and Emil Cioran. It is a welcome opportunity for the scholarly audience to familiarize themselves with contemporary Romanian literature and literary theory.
Trade ReviewA reference study in comparative literature, Professor Ilie Gyurcsik’s book represents an exceptional analysis of certain exemplary (‘paradigmatic’) texts and comprises, displayed into a postmodern spirit, the tension inherent to a double perspective: the direct perspective, which is ‘Renaissance-like’ and proper to historical modernity, and the inverted perspective, which is literally-semantic, ludic, and fragmentary, and is proper to radical aesthetic modernity; a tension between the work and the text, between the paralogical delirium and the logic of the paradox, between a “pharaohic” vision and an “archeological” one. -- Ioan Nicolae Anghel, Editor, Amarcord Press, Timisoara, Romania
Table of ContentsExplanation Introductory Dream Chapter 1: The “Author” As Player and Master of the Game: Dostoyevsky Chapter 2: Unweaving the Textual Costume: Thomas Mann Chapter 3: The Mantle of the Reading and the Reading of the Mantle: Proust Chapter 4: The Fringe of the Harlequin’s Mantle: Joyce Chapter 5: The Trial of the Letter and the Letter of the Trial: Kafka Chapter 6: The (Un)Mytho-Historiographic Mantle: Faulkner Chapter 7: The Mantle Of The Mega(Un)Syllogism: Cioran Author, Mantle, Toys References
