ONTOLOGICAL STATUS OF PICTURE IN SABATO’S NOVEL THE TUNNEL: ON PANS OF ANDROGYNOUS DISCOURSE

Abstract

Erasing the boundaries between the sphere of fiction (picture) and reality as the picture of the world in Sabato’s The Tunnel, as well as the changing places of centre and margin on sociological, artistic, sexual level of existing of a negative character, are the main problems of “male” discourse in the work. On the other hand, however, parallelly “female” discourse offers problematizing and rotation of aesthetic and ethical presence of enlightening and humanistic ideas of art as mimesis, picture as a particle of fictional world, limited by frame, in space of reality, the problem of sexuality and seduction as an expression of masculine domination, identity as being present, as well as the horror of logic, that is, as we can see in the novel, deadly. The key to understanding of “androgynous” discourse lies in recipient’s ability to rotate his reading position, and, from the position of the text margin (beginning and end), alternately to gravitate towards its center, that is to say, towards the point of textual confluence of the andric and the gynic.