„[...] Eine Reise [...] die keine Rückkehr war“ On the Structure of Memory in Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (1967) by Elias Canetti Cover Image

„[...] Едно пътуване [...], което не бе завръщане“ За структурата на паметта в „Гласовете от Маракеш“ (1967) на Елиас Канети
„[...] Eine Reise [...] die keine Rückkehr war“ On the Structure of Memory in Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (1967) by Elias Canetti

Author(s): Matjaž Birk
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Studies of Literature, History of ideas, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), German Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Elias Canetti; Marrakesh; rhetoric of memory; retrospective travel narrative.

Summary/Abstract: Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (1967) is one of the characteristic texts produced by Bulgarian-born Austrian writer and Nobel prize winner Elias Canetti. On the one hand, his Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise (A Record of a Visit) lays the foundations of the aphoristic style of his multi-volume “records”, and, on the other hand, is imbedded in the European tradition of travel writing as a genre dedicated to memoir culture. The paper traces the rhetoric of memory as a narrative principle, unifying the impressions of the traveller as a by-standing observer of the real journey, his reflections on the stories further developed in his imagination and his rhetorical devices for the articulation of universal human ideas.

  • Issue Year: 27/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 40-47
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bulgarian