Bildsprache und Sprachbilder in der Prosa und Prosatheorie Jan Kjaerstads
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2000
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Adam Mickiewicz University Press
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In all his novels Jan Kjærstad in a very significant
manner makes use of pictorial descriptions. The objects, which he
describes, oscillate between famous pictures of artists like Vermeer,
Picasso, Gauguin, van Gogh and imaginary ones, which are the
products of the author’s own phantasy. Together the descriptions of
real and fictional objets d’art shape a network of interpictorial
patterns, which are typical for Kjaerstad’s way of writing. These
interfigural traces seem to me to be very important parts of the
textual conception of his novels and they obviously have a
metaphoric function. In my contribution I focus on some aspects of
this metaphoric structure by means of pictorial description and
show some semantic implications of the interpictorial relations and
of the basic communications between verbal and graphic signs,
which in the novels of Kjærstad can be traced back to a common
point of departure, in which there is no difference between written
and pictorial expression.
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Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia vol. 6, 2000, pp. 37-52.