The Image of Man in Metafictional Novels by John Banville: Celebrating the Power of the Imagination

Maciej Czerniakowski

Maciej Czerniakowski Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych

Słowa kluczowe: postmodernism; metafiction; creative imagination; intertextuality; heterotopia

Abstrakt

Artykuł analizuje strategie budowy obrazu człowieka, które John Banville stosuje w swoich dwóch metafikcyjnych powieściach – Kepler i Doctor Copernicus. Autor eseju kolejno omawia: siłę kreatywnej wyobraźni domniemanego autora i narratora oraz samoświadomość jednej z postaci, Rheticusa, w tworzeniu fikcji oraz intertekstualność powieści. Przy okazji analizy ostatniego aspektu utworów wspomniany zostaje również termin Michela Foucault – heterotopia. Wnioski o człowieku, do jakich prowadzi ta analiza, pokazują, że z jednej strony dysponuje on praktycznie nieograniczoną wyobraźnią twórczą. Z drugiej zaś, człowiek jest zagubiony w świecie niewyraźnych granic ontologicznych, co udowadnia dość paradoksalną wizję człowieka.

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