Eva Figes "Ghosts": A Poetic Discourse of Trauma
- Autores: Malgorzata Godlewska
- Localización: Discourses in co(n)text: the many faces of specialised discourse / Magdalena Zabielska (ed. lit.), Emilia Wasikiewicz-Firlej (ed. lit.), Anna Szcezepaniak-Kozak (ed. lit.), 2015, ISBN 978-1-4438-7419-9, págs. 211-226
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
The intention of this chapter is to analyse the multidimensionality of poetic discourse in the fiction of a British writer, Eva Figes (1932- 2012).
Figes was a recognised experimental writer of jiction and non-fiction with fifteen novels and a large number of critical works. Despite numerous literary awards, including the prestigious Guardian Fiction Prize for one oJ her earlier novels, Winter Journey (1967), Figes's novels have not gained extensive popularity among readers due to their highly experimental and demanding modernist and postmodernist techniques, though her works have acquired recognition among critics of literature.
Ghosts (1988) constitutes the example of Figes's literary techniques and provides the key text for the analysis of poetic discourse in this chapter. The text may be regarded as the writer's advancement in the realisation of the pure consciousness through the poetic prose and the fusion of the protagonist's and narrator's perspectives. The poetic discourse revealed through the text of Ghosts embodies the hyphenated identity of a trauma victim together with the identity of a nameless city which she is traversing. The cityscape and the traumatised identity of an elderly woman are delineated simultaneously so as to disclose the universalised truth about the contemporary human alienation and identity distortion .
