A Metafictional Reflection on Historiography: the Inclusiveness of Truth in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project

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Acta Neophilologica Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI:10.31648/an.7803

B. Kucała

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Abstract

This article analyses Graeme Macrae Burnet’s novel His Bloody Project (2015) as a metafictional exemplification of the problem of truth in historical accounts. Spuriouslyclaiming that his novel contains authentic material related to a nineteenth-century crime, Burnet recounts the case in the form of a collection of miscellaneous texts. The novel may be read in the light of the stance upheld in postmodern historiography that there is no ultimate truth to be reached at the end of a historical enquiry. This analysis of His Bloody Project aims to demonstrate that the obscure, multifaceted truth about the murder case is constituted by all the diverse − even if incongruous and contradictory − perspectives presented in the book.

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史学的元虚构反思:格雷姆·麦克雷·伯内特《血腥计划》中真理的包容性

本文分析了格雷姆·麦克雷·伯内特(Graeme Macrae Burnet)的小说《他的血腥计划》(2015)，将其作为历史记载中真相问题的元虚构例证。伯内特虚假地声称他的小说包含了与19世纪犯罪有关的真实材料，他以杂文合集的形式叙述了这个案件。这部小说可以根据后现代史学所坚持的立场来阅读，即在历史调查结束时没有最终的真理可以达到。对《他的血腥计划》的分析旨在证明，关于这起谋杀案的模糊的、多方面的真相是由书中呈现的所有不同的——即使是不协调和矛盾的——观点构成的。

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Acta Neophilologica LITERATURE-

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期刊介绍： The scientific journal Acta Neophilologica is the review of Slovenian experts in English-speaking, German-speaking and French- and Italian-speaking literary historians that publishes scientific studies of international and domestic scientists in the field of Western-European, American and other literatures in English. The journal pays special attention to the problems from the history of cultural and especially literary and theatre contacts between Slovenia and Western-European literatures, as well as the problems of Slovenian emigrant literature. The articles are published in the world language (English, German, French, Italian) the literature of which the author analyzes, the abstracts are written in a foreign language and the summaries in the Slovenian language.