THE SPATIAL ASPECT OF THE “INVENTED PERCEPTION” IN THE SHORT STORIES COLLECTION “NADIRS” BY HERTA MÜLLER

Abstract

In this article, a spatial aspect expression of the “invented perception” (from debut collection of H. Müller “Nadirs”) are researched, as well as its philosophical and aesthetic dimensions. Primarily the research is based on the work “Kisten, Krypten, Labyrinthe, Raumfigurationen in der Gegenwartsliteratur” by A. K. Johannsen, particularly, on the chapter devoted to the role of space and spatiality in H. Müller’s latest essay “Wenn wir schweigen, werden wir unangenehm - wenn wir reden, werden wir lächerlich”. The author comes to the conclusion that the spatial aspect of the “invented perception” H. Müller discovers the essential features of heterotopias, and opposes them “other spaces”, constructed by own individual perception.