: The Author in the Text State (Non-genre Autobiographies by Alta Vášová)

Abstract

In the mid 1990s Alta Vášová returned to her literary roots. The paper deals with the expert reading, analysis of and comments on the proses that she included in her book titled Ostrovy nepamäti (The Islands of Non-Memory, 2008) overlapping with her later books Sfarbenia (Colorations, 2011) and Menoslov (The Name List, 2014). The paper is an attempt at identifying the particularity of the writer´s biographical writing, focus on detail and fragment as meaningful parts of the whole message in the original autobiographical writing. A part included in the paper is a reflection on stylistic possibilities of non-pragmatic narrative, which eliminates the borders between the author, the narrator and the genre in favour of new text strategies.

Keywords

• subject
• autobiography
• personality description
• non-memory
• latencies
• atmospheres
• text graphics