Bibliotēka un lasīšana. Lasīšanas hermeneitiski fenomenoloģiska analīze

Abstract

Hermeneutically-phenomenologically understanding the question “what is reading?” – the Author’s work is to be read and the Author provides the possibility of following the path shown by the Author in order to get to the [ontological] field of play chosen and created by the Author, where, in turn, not the Author’s statements, descriptions of beings appear, but the reader is given the possibility of understanding this world that the Author has created for him – he is provided with a space, a field of play for understanding, where to play with the possibilities of meanings offered by language – thinking his own thoughts, he does not yield so easily to games and play. The Author offers a new language, and a great deal of freedom and participatory choice – reading even allows one to escape the mundane, or in Hugo Ball’s words, “escape out of time”. In this new spatiality of the world: the trees grow out of the letters, at the same time someone asks for someone’s hand, and Mr. Schulze rides on the tram yawning (See: Dada’s Manifestoes, sound poems); but it [the Author’s work] must always be in harmony with the idea [of the Author], must fulfil the demands of the idea and must not want anything more, the Author must not impose his will – he may only show what he sees himself, creating a perspective, opening, or at least wanting to open a window on the same apparent view he sees. The ability to read enables one to discover and understand the perspective [in the imagination] and experience of others, which are no less true than one’s own – even in everyday and colloquial language, even, for example, when one says that one “reads” a table of analysis results, “to read” means: to understand the intended meaning, to be able to do something with the language of meanings used by the Author.