Slovenska Literatura (Aug 2009)
POETICS OF COMPOSITION IN A BOOK PEREAT BY PAVEL HRÚZ
Abstract
The study is aimed at the composition of Pavel Hrúz´s book Pereat. The author of the study uses a term composition, which in his concept includes a tectonic and a thematic part of the piece as well as its meaning construction. The author´s theoretical starting point is based on an idea about dynamic nature of a prose text composition, which is created by synchronic interaction of procedures providing continuity and discontinuity of the composition. The author pays attention to certain parts of Pereat´s composition, which have both unifying and separating function. He describes seven texts of the book as a sequence of seven narrative transformations of a basic fabula, so as seven relatively independent sujets; with their motifs relation and meaning correspondence they also create logically related sequence of events, called by an ad hoc formed (subsidiary) term archisujet. Narration in Pereat is composed in two levels. An effect of the whole text, not reduced to any of “individual“texts, can be seen in oscillation between two levels. Text understanding permanently oscillates between meanings developed by particular stories and meaning belonging to an archisujet layer. Distinguishing two steps of epic material transformation seems to be useful in explaining artistic value of Hrúz´s book as well as determinants influencing text interpretation.
