LITERATURE AS DIALOGUE

Literature should not be considered as a mimetic representation of reality, but rather as a form of communication that involves a sender, a receiver and a certain context. Thus, literature becomes an intentionally structured dialogue meant to arouse a specific response. The present article analyzes the dialogical essence of Dorothy Parker’s short story “New York to Detroit”. The undertaken study reveals the existence of a literary dialogue (between the writer and the reader), which is shaped around a literary-communicative intention.