FIKTION BEI PAUL DE MAN

Authors

  • Zoltán KULCSÁR-SZABÓ Eötvös-Loránd-Universität in Budapest. Emailadresse: kulcsar-szabo.zoltan@btk.elte.hu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.3.27

Keywords:

deconstruction, fiction, Paul de Man, testimony, textuality

Abstract

Fiction in Paul de Man. Literature as a modern institution is founded—as, considering the relationship between testamentality and fictionality, Jacques Derrida pointed out in his essay Demeure and pertinent texts—on the one hand on the neutralization of the undecidability that haunts the demarcation line between literature and its “other,” and on the further fiction of comme si on the other. Aiming to inquire into the far side of this institutionally fortified “other fiction,” the present contribution attempts to give an account of Paul de Man's concept of fiction that is based on the non-phenomenal effects of a machine-like textuality. This concept appears—even if in a rather dispersed way—again and again in central contexts of the Rousseau part of Allegories of Reading, but has received surprisingly little attention in the literature on de Man. The focus of this article lies on the close reading of a longer passage from the final chapter of the mentioned work.

Article history: Received 30 June 2022; Revised 18 July 2022; Accepted 30 July 2022; Available online 20 September 2022; Available print 30 September 2022.

REZUMAT. Ficțiunea la Paul De Man. Literatura ca instituție modernă este fundamentată – așa cum sublinia Jacques Derrida în eseul său Demeure și în alte texte relevante privind relația dintre testamentalitate și ficționalitate – pe de o parte, pe neutralizarea indecidabilității care bântuie linia de demarcație dintre literatură și “celălalt” și, pe de altă parte, pe ficțiunea lui comme si. Având intenția de a examina zona îndepărtată a acestei “alte ficțiuni” fundamentate instituțional, contribuția actuală încearcă să dea seama de conceptul de ficțiune la Paul de Man, concept bazat pe efectele non-fenomenale ale unei textualități cvasi-mecaniciste. Acest concept apare iar – chiar dacă într-un mod destul de dispersat – în punctele nodale ale secțiunii Rousseau din Alegoriile lecturii, dar a beneficiat de surprinzător de puțină atenție în literatura consacrată lui de Man. În prezentul articol accentul cade pe lectura atentă a unui pasaj mai lung din capitolul final al lucrării menționate.

Cuvinte-cheie: deconstrucție, ficțiune, Paul de Man, mărturie, textualitate

Author Biography

Zoltán KULCSÁR-SZABÓ, Eötvös-Loránd-Universität in Budapest. Emailadresse: kulcsar-szabo.zoltan@btk.elte.hu

Zoltán KULCSÁR-SZABÓ ist Professor und Leiter des Lehrstuhls für Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Eötvös-Loránd-Universität in Budapest. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen Theorie und Geschichte der modernen Lyrik, sowie Literatur- und Kulturtheorie. In seinem zuletzt veröffentlichten Buch beschäftigt er sich mit der ungarischen Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Jeltelen felhők között, 2022). Er war Mitherausgeber u. a. der Sammelbände Signaturen des Geschehens (Transcript 2014) und Life After Literature (Springer 2020). Emailadresse: kulcsar-szabo.zoltan@btk.elte.hu

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2022-09-20

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KULCSÁR-SZABÓ, Z. (2022). FIKTION BEI PAUL DE MAN. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 67(3), 273–286. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2022.3.27

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