Slovenska Literatura (Apr 2007)
New Novel and Mathematic
Abstract
Author in the study damasks false analogy of a genre of new novel with mathematic creating process as it was proposed by some theoreticians. New novel according to theoretical assumptions of the representatives of the theory replaces a function of copying reality by a function of constructing autonomous system of denotations and that way it is similar to mathematical creative work. Mathematic deduction consists of basic set of elements and their transformations (operators). In the novel of Robbe-Grillet Dom schôdzok (The House of Meetings) there is not relationship between elements and operators in the sense of explicit correlation: nuclear scenes belong to elements and among operators there is a rule of connecting single events into phases having a character of a snipe. Vertical operator is a rule of connecting the sets of events in a way so that what differs in reality from one another by categorical levels in a novel can co-exist. Antinomic effects are results of it as versions of events stand side by side one another even in contradiction. However, this construction is not an equivalent to autonomy of a mathematic construction: relationships that in the Mathematics can connect a set of denotation elements with a set of operators never exist by chance. But the Robbe-Grillet´s operators as well as places of their application to “a story” could be radically exchanged and that way a new text can be created not different from the text of Dom schôdzok (The House of Meetings) as far as it is equipped by analogical entropy because systems with an analogical degree of disorderliness are informationally equivalent. As a sense of operators cannot be defined by connection to a sense of events semantic integration of a text must be replaced by formal integration. However, reader cannot resign on the reference of designations to the fragments of reality. In consequence of it, breaking the course of the work with “informing” tradition seems to be a postulate not a result. If a text includes a structure that can refer as a model to phenomena outside of the work that means that the structure works as an element contains denotation that is not empty. In that case the work is a communicator (creates a message). The more original operators are the more stereotype must be a foundational set of scenes on which the operators applicable.
