Elements for a redefinition of narratology research: Analysis of the anti-Aristotelian model of Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy
Résumé
In my opinion, in Nietzsche’s work it is possible to find a new epistemological model based, firstly, on a mutual agreement held up by author and reader, during the “act of reading”, founded on the will to “misunderstand” the narrative text, beyond the “reassuring agreement” of understanding the narrative “semblance” (that is composed by a concatenation of events without any strong chronological function), and secondly, on the capacity to produce a general “melancholic effect” and a “cognitive shock” to the reader. Based on, among others, the structure of the interplay between the fiction and the imaginary proposed by Wolfgang Iser (Prospecting, The Fictive and the Imaginary), Ferruccio Masini’s and Eugen Fink’s interpretation of the Nietzsche’s philosophy (founded on the “transfigured dialectic” of play), and Walter Benjamin’s conception of artistic creation influenced by Freud (On some motifs in Baudelaire), my presentation will focus on describing my theoretical approach and point out its originality, after a diachronic description of the “Aristotelian tradition” in the history of the narratology.