Získání obrazu: Analýza příběhu v E. L. Doctorow's Book of Daniel

Beňadiková, Jana

American novelist E. L. Doctorow proclaimed in his essay, "False Documents," that there is no fiction or nonfiction, only narrative. A similar notion can be discerned also in Doctorow's novelistic oeuvre, which articulates the author's meditations on narrative. This thesis analyzes the particular manifestation of Doctorow's meditative concern for narrativity within his 1971 novel, The Book of Daniel, inspired by the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The thesis argues that The Book of Daniel explores the role of narrativity in informing modes of thought and systems of interpretation of the world by deconstructing and drawing attention to the process of construing a narrative in an epistemological enquiry into its potential to impart knowledge, problematizing this notion simultaneously by exposing the inherent artificiality of every and any narrative stemming from the fact that it is always manipulated, and consciously construed a certain way. This exploration of the nature and role of narrativity is realized in the novel on the level of plot by the protagonist's epistemologically motivated deconstruction of the official historical account of the Cold War political trial of his executed parents and of other, alternative accounts surrounding the case. This deconstruction ultimately demonstrates that...

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