Published 2021-03-01
“…The aim of this article is to outline the ways to research fragmentation in
literature. It raises the following problems, relevant for literary theory: a) each period has different understanding of what is a whole and what is a fragment; b) ideas about the essence and the meaning of fragmentary forms (including the views on increasing / decreasing complexity in
literature) are also different; c) the special logic of fragmentation as a technique emerges only in the era of authorship (as opposed to traditionalism), i.e. the individual vision, or the author’s view that destroys the canon. …”
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