Metaleptic Confessions: The Problematization of Fictional Truth in Paul Auster’s Invisible

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dc.creatorCsató, Péter
dc.date2022-12-09
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-20T13:37:05Z
dc.date.available2023-02-20T13:37:05Z
dc.descriptionThis essay focuses on Paul Auster’s novel, Invisible (2009), aiming to explore the text’s intricate metafictional dimensions, especially the deployment of metalepsis as the main organizing principle of its narrative structure. The author argues that the novel employs a subtle metaleptic narrative structure, which moves beyond the classical postmodernist phase of textual experimentation, and serves as a means of raising questions of ethical and existential relevance. Metalepsis is construed in the paper as a trope of transgression, whereby its epistemological and ontological functions are regarded as a means to an end, which is the problematization of the interrelation between narrative structure and ethical agency. The main contention of the article is that the novel’s surreptitiously deployed metaleptic structure results in the ontological destabilization of the narrative, which in turn undermines the epistemic function (truth-telling) of the act of confession, so its ethical purpose (atonement, absolution) remains unfulfilled. (PCS)en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/12093
dc.identifier10.30608/HJEAS/2022/28/2/2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/345930
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadóen-US
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/12093/10688
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2022 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studiesen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022)en-US
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectpostmodernismen-US
dc.subjectnarratologyen-US
dc.subjectmetafictionen-US
dc.subjectmetalepsisen-US
dc.subjectethicsen-US
dc.titleMetaleptic Confessions: The Problematization of Fictional Truth in Paul Auster’s Invisibleen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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