A Poética da “Invencão Pura”: Ghosts, de John Banville
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https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v22i1.3851Palavras-chave:
Ghosts, Invenção pura, Pinturas, Intertexto, Narrativa, VaublinResumo
Este ensaio argumenta que Ghosts (1993), de John Banville, pode considerado o romance mais tecnicamente inventivo de Banville, repleto de níveis ontológicos com diversas camadas que trazem, repetidamente, seu discurso diegético primário em comunhão com outras formas artísticas – música, pinturas, estátuas, bem como uma saturação narrativa com outros antecedentes literários que excedem qualquer coisa encontrada em outro lugar em sua obra. Ghosts demonstra uma camada implícita de níveis dialéticos que são, de fato, uma encenação narrativa da teoria dos múltiplos mundos que tanto fascinam muitos dos narradores de Banville. Em nenhum outro lugar ele gera um modelo tão abrangente de um sistema ontológico com diferentes níveis que se cruzam tão propositadamente quanto em Ghosts. Este ensaio mapeia uma topografia do que é efetivamente uma variante fictícia sofisticada da teoria científica de múltiplos mundos em Ghosts, e oferece algumas perspectivas sobre a importância desse modelo estético.
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