Original scientific paper
The Continuity of Joyce (Traces and Analogies in Later Foreign Writers)
Ivo Vidan
Abstract
The impact of James Joyce's work upon later Writers manifests itself in a variety of ways. The stylistic range displayed in Ulysses and the perceptual and epistemological possibilities implied in the eighteen episodes have perhaps most effectively furthered Joyce's international presence. In this essay examples of J oyce's continuity are given from the literatures of France and Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s, i.e.roughly simultaneously, but at different stages in the intrinsic developoment of letters in the two countries. An analysis of R. Pinget's "Inquisitory" and A. Robbe-Grillet's "Jealousy on the one hand", and of O. Davico's "The Poem" and R. Marinković's "The Cyclops" on the other, testifies that the richness and variety of Joycean discourse can be put to a great range of uses - dependent on what task the fiction ina particular language needs to assume at a particular moment. In France and Yugoslavia these are historically different at the same moment in time, but «in both countries the most advanced and the most independent writing has felt the 'need to enlist Joyce in its own pursuit after new fictional correlates to the changing world of their authors.
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121648
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Publication date:
26.12.1984.
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