Metalepsa auctorială în proza Doinei Ruști

Abstract

What sets the novel „The ghost in the mill”, by Doina Rusti apart is its original narrative style which captures the reader’s attention through the reccurence of the metaliterary elements and also through the fact that it relies on a particular ambiguity of the character and of the person, on the character’s hybrid nature as well as on the person’s depersonalization, on alternating narative levels. Metalepsis is one of the techniques used by Doina Rusti in her novel with the view to shifting between two worlds, the real world and the unreal, metaliterary world, the three diegetic universes in her art. This narrative technique, defined by Gérard Genette as „a fictional transgression of the representation” creates a connection between the novelist and her works of art, through direct transfer from the author’s world to a mimetic world.
Doina Rusti’s novel makes use of the metalepsis, which entails the effect of mirroring the author and the text, through transgression from the literary work to the author and conversely the other way back. There is evidence in Doina Rusti’s novel ’’The ghost in the mill” of a fictionalized author through its double fictional version.