Egzistencijalno traganje, apsurd i hermeneutika nade u proznom delu Tomasa Pinčona

Abstract

U ovom istraživanju se analizira pet romana Tomasa Pinčona (V., Objava broja 49, Duga gravitacije, Vajnlend i Skrivena mana) sa ciljem da se ustanovi prisutnost i uloga egzistencijalističkih tema i elemenata apsurda, kao i da se ukaže na simbolička značenja određenih aspekata Pinčonove proze, koji afirmišu nadu. Ovi romani su odabrani iz kompletnog Pinčonovog stvaralaštva, jer ih povezuje istorijski kontekst, duga geneza represivnih mera američkog i evropskog društva i egzistencijalna traganja kroz postmodernističke pejsaže i simulakrume. Romani se analiziraju hronološki. Prva tri romana (V., Objava broja 49 i Duga gravitacije) se analiziraju iz ugla egzistencijalizma kako bi se izvršila identifikacija, konceptualizovanje i dešifrovanje ontološke strukture egzistencije Pinčonovih anti-junaka. Elementi apsurda i stilska sredstva izražavanja pojma apsurda ispituju se kroz analizu druga dva romana (Vajnlend i Skrivena mana). Hermeneutička rekonstrukcija pojedinih aspekata Pinčonove proze kao što su karnevalizacija, simboli porodice i zajednice, prisustvo Bele boginje i Pinčonov moto 'budi staložen a brižan' otkriva humanističku i humorističnu dimenziju njegove proze, koja otvara poseban horizont metafizičke nade...

This research examines five novels of Thomas Pynchon (V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland and Inherent Vice) in order to reveal the presence and the role of existentialist themes and the elements of absurd, as well as to specify the aspects of Pynchon's fiction with symbolic meaning, which affirm hope. These novels have been chosen from the whole Pynchon's oeuvre on account of their common historical context, the long genesis of the repressive measures of the American and European society analyzed in all of them, and the existential quests through the postmodern landscapes and simulacra, which is also a common feature. The novels have been analyzed chronologically. The first three novels (V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow) have been analyzed from an existentialist point of view in order to identify, conceptualize and decode the ontological structure of Pynchon's anti-heroes existence. The elements of absurd and the rhetorical devices, used to express the notion of the absurd, have been examined within the analysis of the other two novels (Vineland and Inherent Vice). The hermeneutic reconstruction of certain aspects of Pynchon's fiction, such as carnivalization, the symbols of the family and community, the presence of the White Goddess and Pynchon's motto 'Keep cool but care', reveals the humanistic and humoristic dimensions of his fiction, which opens the special horizon of the metaphysical hope...