Literatura: la granița dintre real și imaginar

Abstract

Bertrand Westphal mentions the infinity of worlds conceived by postmodernity to relativize the impact of the unique world of modernity. In the geocritical approach, the real world, named "objective", would be a world among others that fiction would have created [Westphal 2011: 10]. The worlds created by literature are plausible worlds and even more, they could also become possible in certain circumstances. The worlds constructed by literary work are based on discourse, and Mikhail Bakhtin explains that speaker’s discourse in the novel is not “translated or reproduced”, but it is “represented with art”. The discourse of the novel always represents “a special view of the world, claiming a social significance” [Bakhtine 1978: 153]. “Space and time seem to have an infinite extension and to be divisible to infinity” [Russel 1972: 152]. “The image of man is always intrinsically chronotopic” [Bakhtin 1981: 85]. In extenso, the image of man is also infinite. The literary character is, among others, is a synthetized representation of man. In conclusion, his evolution is directly related to the space and time that defines the universe of his existence.