Abstract

The text is brought to life through reading. This has not only been understood by literary scholars like Wolfgang Iser or Umberto Eco, but also by authors or poets. This can be recognized in some literary texts when, from the first page, the reader is forced by the author to actively shape the story to be read. The concept of fold, coined by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, seems to take into account many strategies of authors to stimulate the negotiation process between author and reader. By fostering non-linear and parallel stories, which lead to many worlds interpretation, the agency of the reader comes to its fore. We can observe very different strategies like this for example in novels of Mark Z. Danielewski and Milorad Pavic. Using the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, I want to explore how multilingualism can be understood aesthetically and how it leads us to an ontological relativism in literature.

Highlights

  • The text is brought to life through reading

  • This paper focuses on this multiplication, which starts from an aesthetic multilingualism

  • We have been able to learn a lot about the different folds that lead us through the book and allow for different approaches to the stories, but only implicitly reflected on the form

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Summary

From Aesthetic Multilingualism to Many Worlds Interpretation

To tell a story means to construct a fable or to find a red thread, which helps the listener to understand what has been said. The possibilities of art should allow different languages and a cunning escape Eco describes this as the openness of the artwork, which promises both artists and recipients of art different surprising qualities of perception and forms of expression. Every possible reading is welcome and encouraged by the form of an aesthetic multilingualism This follows the approach of the experience of quantum mechanics, when it is stated that there is only one physical world, but at the same time “there are two incompatible stories about that world” (Albert 1992, 115). Postmodern literature, if this term may be assigned as a literary identifier, deals confidently with this fact and transfers it into the literary aesthetics of a many worlds interpretation

Dictionary of the Khazars
House of Leaves
Many worlds interpretation and ontological relativism
Literatur
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