The Role of the Author in a Text: Between the Fictional Construction and The Social Pressure Cover Image

Autorul în text: între construcţie ficţională şi presiune socială
The Role of the Author in a Text: Between the Fictional Construction and The Social Pressure

Author(s): Doiniţa Milea
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: strategies; the border of narrative; ideological choice

Summary/Abstract: When the author turns into an imaginary character, this one gives up his attitude of superiority and authority over his story and thus, he enables the reader to become aware of the narrative voice behind commonly called Author. The problem of implied and obvious ideological constructions, of the game of power which participates in the construction of the intellectual discourse turns literature into a voice and vector that records conflictual attitudes, social pressure which the real authors confront with and which determine their ideological choice and model. Thus, literature imprints social and political points of view and behind the imaginary and fictitious contruction there hide themes that are taken from politics and social commitment. Transfer of a personality which speaks about the author`s involvement in his work, interiorization of events through the character, image of a conscience unable to overpass its limits, incapable of adjusting itself to the real history, the text contains in its inner structure, hidden by the narrative artifices of the parable rhetoric, the personality between conformism and assimilation, the expression of a desire of total perfection which are to be found in the political, philosophical and religious options. In a text the author represents the compensatory desire for power the same way as in the creation of characters to be found in self-fictionary narratives such as the novel and auto-biograhical writing, associate a real character with an imaginary destiny.

  • Issue Year: 10/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 163-171
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian