TY - JOUR AU - Bokshan, Halyna PY - 2019/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - BODY IDENTITY IN BOHUMIL HRABAL’S NOVEL “I SERVED THE KING OF ENGLAND” JF - Літературний процес: методологія, імена, тенденції JA - LPMIT VL - IS - 13 SE - Концептуальні питання літературознавства DO - 10.28925/2412-2475.2019.131 UR - https://litp.kubg.edu.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/456 SP - AB - <p>The purpose of the paper is to examine the specificity of the modeling of the character-narrator’s<br />body identity in B. Hrabal’s novel “I Served the King of England”. Firstly it stresses on the body-centered<br />nature of the narration in this literary work, in which the evolution of personality is represented<br />as “a history of the body”. The study focuses on the techniques of restructurizing “the body scheme”<br />and the manifestation of psychophysiological transgression caused by the existing “archetypal<br />canons”. It traces the correlation of the semantics of the body identity with the aesthetic categories<br />of the beautiful and the ugly and with gender differentiation. The paper also considers gastronomy<br />as one of the aspects of bodiliness in B. Hrabal’s novel. It details the poetics of grotesque which manifests<br />itself in the descriptions of the body emphasizing its objectiveness. The study looks at the Rabelaisian<br />traditions followed by the writer in the depiction of the scenes connected with eating both everyday<br />food and exotic dishes. The research underlines that the body in B. Hrabal’s novel is displayed<br />as a genetic data medium, visualized through physical characteristics, that highlights the social<br />arrangement of the body identity problems. It pays attention to the social function of a human<br />face in archaic societies originally interpreted in the novel. The research determines the peculiarities<br />of the space marking of the body in the literary work and its correlation with the binary opposition<br />“top–bottom”. It looks at the formation of the body identity by means of a mirror reflection and<br />the image of the double. The conclusions of the research emphasize the specificity of the modeling<br />of the body identity in the novel of the Czech writer. The results of this scientific paper can be used<br />in further research on B. Hrabal literary prose and in comparative studies examining typological<br />parallels in visualizing bodliliness in his works and those of Yu. Vynnychuk.</p><p> </p><p>DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.131">https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2475.2019.131</a></p> ER -