The phenomenon of authorial mediation has become especially prolific in recent literature, where it represents a distinctive characteristic of the merging of forms of the novel and essay. To investigate the evolution of authorial mediation over the last forty years, this paper focuses on two works by Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (1979) and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1984), and two by Emmanuel Carrère, "Limonov" (2011) and "The Kingdom" (2014). Through analysis of excerpts from these books, this article illustrates the ways in which each author exemplifies one of two different modes of interaction between novel and essay: a fictional form (the novel-essay) and a non-fictional one (the narrative essay).
Da Kundera a Carrère: la mediazione autoriale nelle scritture tra romanzo e saggio
Lara Toffoli
2021-01-01
Abstract
The phenomenon of authorial mediation has become especially prolific in recent literature, where it represents a distinctive characteristic of the merging of forms of the novel and essay. To investigate the evolution of authorial mediation over the last forty years, this paper focuses on two works by Milan Kundera, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (1979) and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1984), and two by Emmanuel Carrère, "Limonov" (2011) and "The Kingdom" (2014). Through analysis of excerpts from these books, this article illustrates the ways in which each author exemplifies one of two different modes of interaction between novel and essay: a fictional form (the novel-essay) and a non-fictional one (the narrative essay).
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