The Ugliness of Banal Truths
The paper deals with an analysis of the controversial novel Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq. In this work, the author sensitively maintains an oscillation between the plausibility of truth, hidden behind metaphors and symbols, and the implausibility of the whole story in its individual components. Th...
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University of Presov, Faculty of Arts
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| description | The paper deals with an analysis of the controversial novel Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq. In this work, the author sensitively maintains an oscillation between the plausibility of truth, hidden behind metaphors and symbols, and the implausibility of the whole story in its individual components. The occurrence of ugliness as a decisive aesthetic dimension is continual, graded into almost all its shapes and forms, until it finally fills in the entire space and time of the fictional story. The astonishing horror of the author’s aesthetic world does not lie in the brutality of the language she uses, but rather in the similarity of the real and the imaginary, in the way she makes cruelty appear visible though the fictional narrative. The paper thus shows that classical aesthetic views fail when used as tools for understanding the nature of the aesthetic world modelled by Darrieussecq. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59cd2411822545568354ada66fe2aa812022-12-21T18:26:29ZcesUniversity of Presov, Faculty of ArtsESPES1339-11192021-06-0110197110186The Ugliness of Banal TruthsJana Sošková0Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of PresovThe paper deals with an analysis of the controversial novel Truismes by Marie Darrieussecq. In this work, the author sensitively maintains an oscillation between the plausibility of truth, hidden behind metaphors and symbols, and the implausibility of the whole story in its individual components. The occurrence of ugliness as a decisive aesthetic dimension is continual, graded into almost all its shapes and forms, until it finally fills in the entire space and time of the fictional story. The astonishing horror of the author’s aesthetic world does not lie in the brutality of the language she uses, but rather in the similarity of the real and the imaginary, in the way she makes cruelty appear visible though the fictional narrative. The paper thus shows that classical aesthetic views fail when used as tools for understanding the nature of the aesthetic world modelled by Darrieussecq.https://espes.ff.unipo.sk/index.php/ESPES/article/view/212banalityeveryday aestheticsmarie darrieussecqtruismestruthugliness |
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| title | The Ugliness of Banal Truths |
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| title_short | The Ugliness of Banal Truths |
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| url | https://espes.ff.unipo.sk/index.php/ESPES/article/view/212 |
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