| nedaudz par Mannu |
[28. Apr 2007|01:11] |
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Pārlasīju "Doktoru Faustu". Kāds secinājums: Manna spēks slēpjas tieši iekš viņa teju vai nemitīgi ironiskās distancēšanās no paša radītā teksta - ij Faustā, ij "Burvju kalnā", ij "Jāzepā un viņa brāļos". Ja tāds Leverkīns mums būtu piedāvāts, piemēram, no šaušalīgi nopietna pirmās personas vēstījuma, varbūt nekas vairāk par advancētām "Zvaigžņotajām naktīm" tur neiznāktu (nu, labi, es pamatīgi pārspīlēju) - a tagad nudie meistardarbs. Kur šādas distances un ironijas pietrūkst, Manns labākajā gadījumā ir neslikts (kā "Budenbrokos"). Tā, lūk. |
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| Marks Tvens par Džeimsu Fenimoru Kūperu |
[28. Apr 2007|19:12] |
No Tvena Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences. Lielisks piemērs, cik tiešai un atklātai derētu būt literatūras kritikai. :))
"There are nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. In Deerslayer Cooper violated eighteen of them. These eighteen require:
1. That a tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere. But the Deerslayer tale accomplishes nothing and arrives in the air.
2. They require that the episodes of a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it. But as the Deerslayer tale is not a tale, and accomplishes nothing and arrives nowhere, the episodes have no rightful place in the work, since there was nothing for them to
develop.
3. They require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others. But this detail has often been overlooked in the Deerslayer tale.
4. They require that the personages in a tale, both dead and alive, shall exhibit a sufficient excuse for being there. But this detail also has been overlooked in the Deerslayer tale.
5. They require that when the personages of a tale deal in conversation, the talk shall sound like human talk, and be talk such as human beings would be likely to talk in the given circumstances, and have a discoverable meaning, also a discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain in the neighborhood of the subject in hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale, and stop when the people cannot think of anything more to say. But this requirement has been ignored from the beginning of the Deerslayer tale to the end of it.
( tālāk... )
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