David Malouf and the Secret of Literature

IF 0.1 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
C. Thakur
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ABSTRACT In three of the nine novels that David Malouf has produced to date, problems of literature are figured in important ways at the level of narrative. Practices of literary culture and scenes of reading, writing and representation feature particularly prominently in Child's Play (1982), Johnno (1975), and The Great World (1990). This article examines the configurations of the literary in these three novels. It argues that even as the literary may be evoked, referred to, and analysed in the three narratives thematically, it still retains its event-like character, its secret way of exceeding the various contexts of its production, reception, and circulation. The novels can then be read as explorations of the aesthetic, ethical, and political implications of the way the literary does not make itself completely available to understanding and analysis.
大卫·马卢夫和文学的秘密
在大卫·马卢夫迄今为止创作的九部小说中,有三部小说在叙事层面上以重要的方式体现了文学问题。在《孩子的游戏》(1982)、《约翰诺》(1975)和《伟大的世界》(1990)中,文学文化的实践和阅读、写作和表现的场景尤为突出。本文考察了这三部小说的文学形态。它认为,即使文学作品可以在三种叙事方式中被唤起、提及和分析,它仍然保持着它的事件特征,它的秘密方式超越了它的生产、接受和流通的各种背景。这些小说可以被解读为对美学、伦理和政治含义的探索,而文学并没有让自己完全被理解和分析。
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