There are woods like Dublin, where instead of Little Red Riding Hood one can meet Molly Bloom Woods are a metaphor for the narrative text. This is a metaphor invented by Jorge Luis Borges, where wood is a garden of forking paths and you, reader, can trace your own path. Have you ever wondered who the person reading a book really is? One can say, of course, it’s a reader. Bah, it's not so simple. But what kind of reader? In this collection of brilliant and erudite, sparkling with wit essays Eco There are woods like Dublin, where instead of Little Red Riding Hood one can meet Molly Bloom Woods are a metaphor for the narrative text. Umberto Eco - Sase plimbari prin padurea narativa Publicat de admin la 01:30 admin la 01:30. This is a metaphor invented by Jorge Luis Borges, where wood is a garden of forking paths and you, reader, can trace your own path. Have you ever wondered who the person reading a book really is? One can say, of course, it’s a reader. Bah, it's not so simple. But what kind of reader? In this collection of brilliant and erudite, sparkling with wit essays Eco is our guide to fictional wood. Introduces to us the whole system of distinctions between reader and an author as well. Empirical reader for example is that one who treats the text as a link to own emotions and personal associations. Meanwhile fictional wood is not our private garden, it's a public sphere and there are some rules here. And so we come to a model reader. It’s that one ready to play with author. This is obviously not the end of the distinctions, the model one may be the first level reader - who just wants to know how the story ends (does Ahab get a whale?). Or second level one, which asks and wants to understand. To be the first one it’s enough to read the novel, in the second case, the text requires a multiple reading, and sometimes long-term studies. Similar distinctions apply to authors. Empirical, model, narrator. Although let us not be misled. Is there always a first-person narration the voice of the author? Woodhouse wrote once memoirs of the dog written in the first person. And what is that supposed to mean? In those lectures Eco on example of the works of Sterne, Joyce, Nerval, Poe, Kafka, Flaubert and many others analyzes narrative techniques and literary tricks. Introduces us to the time plans, real time and narrative one, the concept of flashbacks and flashforwards, says, quoting Gerard Genette that, a flasback seems to make up for something the author has forgotten whereas the flashforward is a manifestation of narrative impatience; talks about contemporary theories of narrative, using terms like story, plot and discourse. Writes about the delay of action, digressions and suspension of disbelief to finally muse about something what could be named the total novel, in which fictional characters freely migrate from one text to another. Vienna, 1950. Rick goes on with his account: when he triumphantly entered Paris with Captain Renault, as a member of De Gaulle’s liberating army, he heard about certain Dragon Lady ( allegedly the assassin of Robert Jordan during the Spanish Civil War ), whom the Secret Service had put on the trial of the falcon. She should be here any minute. The door opens and a woman appears.” Ilsa!“ Rick cries.“Brigid!” Sam Spade cries.“Anna Schmidt!” Lime cries.“ Miss Scarlett!” Sam cries,“ you’re back! Don’t make my boss suffer any more “. Out of the darkness of the bar comes a man with a sarcastic smile on his face. It’s Philip Marlowe. “Let’s go, Miss Marple “, he says to the woman. “ Father Brown is waiting for us on Baker Street “. Let me stay in that wood for a while. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. -- Umberto Eco Six Walks in the Fictional Woods records a series of lectures that Professor Eco delivered in 1993. The concern is narrative and the distance between fictional truth and actual or historical truth. This is but one target in the copse of topics. The ideal reader is but another. Joyce is quoted saying that the ideal reader for would have an ideal insomnia. The By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. -- Umberto Eco Six Walks in the Fictional Woods records a series of lectures that Professor Eco delivered in 1993. The concern is narrative and the distance between fictional truth and actual or historical truth. This is but one target in the copse of topics. The ideal reader is but another. Joyce is quoted saying that the ideal reader for would have an ideal insomnia. There are also distinctions made between a level one read (pleasure seeker) and a second level of reader which is a more serious bent, one seeking verisimilitude amidst a tangle of symbols and allusions.
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