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Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife as a Piece of Mosaic in Karen Blixen’s Tale The Roads Round Pisa: An Intertextual Analysis
Ivan Z. Sørensen
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If in interpreting a story we take the story's ending as a vantage point, this should give us sufficient ground to analyze how the story is held together, what moves the characters, the plot and so on. This, however, is not the case with Karen Blixen's tales, where we need to take a few steps back with our eyes gently closed. It is there that the focus moves from the tale's characters and the writer's personality to the question of the tale's design, as postulated by Blixen.
Characters in the writer's tales sometimes manage to discern the design. This could happen at the end of their life, as, for example, in the case of Count Ponteziani at the end of The Roads Round Pisa who realizes that his life was too excessively miserable to find out about God's plans in his regard; or, in the case of the character of Carlotta, who understands that „life is a mosaic“ created by God little by little, and if she were able to see „at the centre of the mosaic“ „a tiny shiny piece“, she would be able to understand its plan. However, the reader of a finer taste cannot be molified by this position—to observe the story form end point or from some other vantage point on the temporal continuum marked by „after“. In his imagination he has to take a step back in order to realize the tale's design and its context, including meaning of all the gaps and blanks in it—that which is not said, which is presumed in the literal sense.
In Blixen's tale, desing and mosaic are made, among others, of all the short stories which have been placed into a big story, explain one another and are self-referential. Every single short story (for example, the one of Joseph and Potiphar's wife) is a key to unlocking the main story.
Ključne riječi
The Roads Round Pisa; Karen Blixen; context; main story
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190157
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Datum izdavanja:
1.12.2017.
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