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- Title: Disrupting Social and Cultural Identities: A Critique of the Ever-Changing Self (Critical Essay)
- Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 383 KB
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John Banville's oeuvre reflects his fascination with the figure of the double and the uncanny, the doppelganger, and Nietzschean endless becoming. He believes that, in order to achieve an aesthetic density, the things said should be subordinated to the way they are said. Thus he creates order out of chaos. A South American reading of Banville notes his proximity to Jorge Luis Borges's metaphysical narratives. By not accepting any system used as a model for truth (whether derived from scientific revolutions, art, or the human psyche), Banville makes all of them a game for the mind, a game where paradoxes predominate. Despite their differences, many parallels can be drawn between these two prominent writers. Jorge Luis Borges believes that form is more important than content and that any great and lasting book must be ambiguous; form is a mirror that makes the reader's features known. Banville agrees, arguing that 'in art the only absolute criterion is shape, form, ratio, harmony, call it what you will, call it order'. (1) He also defends the idea that the novel 'requires thought' and 'it requires the reader to take part in the process ... It only comes alive when the reader begins to recreate it and perhaps change it in his imagination'. (2) If Banville's idea is a Derridean supplement to that of Borges, it is not surprising that both writers deliberately make their readers find imaginary roads that fork and corridors that lead nowhere, except to other corridors producing an interplay of mirrors and mazes. Andre Maurois pointed out when writing about Borges that the roads and corridors clearly represent the process of human thought. (3) Aesthetic and ethical reasons move both writers to create daring or vertiginous symmetries and infinite unfolding of the same themes whose tragic beauty is forever imprinted in the readers' memory.
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