The Structure of Fabrio's Novel, The Practice of Life (1985)

Authors

  • Dean Slavić Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Keywords:

novel, structure, characters, the Bible as intertext, recurrent symbols

Abstract

The article explains the structure of the novel with an emphasis on repetition, unity and the relationship between the time of writing and the time of events. Recurrent symbols are explained in terms of E. M. Forster's pattern and rhythm, Deleuze's difference, Kundera's polyphony and Wagner's artistic procedures. The second section of the article describes stylistic effects on the level of words, sentences and idioms. The author of the article elucidates the use of the Bible as intertext in the novel. Muir's classification is utilized to illustrate the relationship between the structure of Fabrio's novel as a chronicle and the Christian concept of history. The interdependence of the narrator and his protagonists is described, and finally, the literary work is classified according to Frye's theory. In this way, autobiographical and anatomical elements are identified.

Published

2021-03-30

Issue

Section

Original Scholarly Paper