نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
گروه آموزشی الهیات، دانشکده علوم انسانی، فلسفه، دانشگاه گنبد کاووس، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
This essay adopts a poststructural approach to examine the concept of plot in Aristotle and Milan Kundera’s works. Kundera’s criticism of Aristotle is suggestive of their ontological-epistemological differences. Accordingly, the main question of the essay is: Why does Kundera, in contrast to Aristotle, consider plot incompatible with the shaping of a novel? None of Aristotle’s central concepts, i.e., unity, necessity, and totality, has any place in Kundera’s narrative world; instead, Kundera brings to the fore plurality, irrationality, and coincidence in the represented world of the novel, which attribute a poststructural dimension to his works. For Kundera, the novel is a form of thinking opposed to Aristotelian essentialism and causality; in contrast to philosophy, the novel is a narrative of an irrational world. More specifically, Kundera is critical of plot because it is assumed to be based on a rational understanding of the world as a causal continuum. In a Kunderean narrative, anti-Aristotelian elements such as subplot, digression, and lack of cause-effect links are typically used. Kundera opposes plot as a dominance of monologism and the absolute power of story-line. The aim of the present study is to argue that without fully taking into account Kundera’s poststructuralist (Nietzschean) view, we would not be able to understand his conception of narrative. Nietzsche, as a forerunner of poststructuralism, has always been a great source of influence for Kundera.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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