WHO IS GWENDOCI? (short note on the structure of Slobodan Vladušić’s novel Delusion)
WHO IS GWENDOCI? (short note on the structure of Slobodan Vladušić’s novel Delusion)

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the 80s of the last century, the French theoretician Gerard Genet, leaving behind, among other things, the narratological phase of research in literature, offering the public an unusual study on the “paratextual” aspects of books, giving it also an unusual title: Thresholds (Seuils, 1987). What are these “thresholds” in literature? Starting from Borges’s metaphorical name “entrance hall” for prefaces, Genet singles out among the “thresholds” (which is also a kind of metaphorical sign) everything that steps out of the text as a series of more or less long verbal statements, and then deals in turn with the aspects of the author’s name, titles and intertitles, prefaces, notes, epigraphs, dedications to various notes or “epitexts” including interviews, conversations, public debates, up to the analysis of correspondence or writers’ diaries.

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