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Identifier

000459393

Title

Νίκος Γαβριήλ Πεντζίκης : αγγλόφωνοι συγγραφείς και διακείμενα στο έργο του : το μεσαίο χρονολογικά μυθιστορηματικό έργο του Νίκου Γαβριήλ Πεντζίκη : χώρος διακειμενικής ώσμωσης αγγλόφωνης μοντερνιστικής λογοτεχνίας

Alternative Title

Nikos Gavriil Pentzikis : anglophone writers and intertexts in his work

Μεσαίο χρονολογικά μυθιστορηματικό έργο του Νίκου Γαβριήλ Πεντζίκη : χώρος διακειμενικής ώσμωσης αγγλόφωνης μοντερνιστικής λογοτεχνίας

Author

Βλάχου, Κωνσταντίνα

Thesis advisor

Δημητρακάκης Γιάννης

Abstract

This paper focuses on the middle period of novel production by Nikos Gavriil Pentzikis. To be more specific, it deals with the novels, Architecture of the Scattered Life, The Novel of Mrs Ersi and Notes of One Hundred Days. This dissertation employs the theories of intertextuality and reception and it studies the way Pentzikis as both a reader and a representative of Modernism, he illustrates his personal experience along with the subjective experience of his fictional characters. This takes place within a context of a universe where everyday reality and ordinary life are scattered whilst Western culture is at a continuous risk of a potential collapse. Nevertheless, Pentzikis differs from his Anglophone peers because he exalts the everyday experience of Orthodoxy. He does not deem Orthodoxy as a mere religion. The sketching of this very private experience of the characters portrayed by Pentzikis, renders Pentzikis’ novels intertexts of Anglophone Modernists. In particular, Pentzikis like his Anglophone peers, he expresses himself via the novel. Simultaneously his narratological choices along with the selection of his topics aim at rendering across to the reader this fragmented experience. Here comes the 21th century reader who in his / her turn receives Pentzikis’ work and s/he may read it in novel ways.

Language

Greek

Subject

Intertextuality

Modernism

Reception

Διακειμενικότητα

Μοντερνισμός

Πρόσληψη

Issue date

2023

Collection