Прозаический интертекст в романе Жоржа Перека «Исчезновение»: фантасмагория функций

Studia Litterarum. 2025. Т. 10. № 4. С. 48–73.

Kirichenko V.

The current work is devoted to the issue of intertextual connections of Georges Perec’s novel La Disparition. This novel is a complex text, written under the conditions of a formal restriction in the form of a lipogram of the letter “e.” The work contains many different rewritings, citations, references, and allusions to other texts, both prose and poetry. This study focuses on the prose intertext, which can be understood as one of the forms of phantasmagoria in Perec’s novel, i. e. as communication with the ghosts of predecessors through their literary heritage. To achieve this goal, the most significant cases of intertextual connection for the poetic structure of the text and its subject matter were selected: Henry James’ Figure in the Carpet (the beginning of the novel), Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, or the White Whale (the beginning and middle of the novel), Jorge Luis Borges’ The Zahir (middle of the novel), and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (end of the novel). All four hypotexts are used by Perec throughout his hypertext to implement five main functions: instrumental, explicative, plot-forming, emphatic, and figurative-aesthetic. As a result, Perec’s novel represents an unusual case of close interconnection between several texts. Many intertextual nodes of La Disparition turn out to be newly interpreted stories serving the leading problematic of Perec’s conception of disappearance.

Keywords: intertextuality, литературные связи, цитирование, аллюзии, rewriting, citations, автоинтертекстуальность, Жорж Перек, Georges Perec, исчезновение, phantasmagory, La Disparition, allusions, literary connections, фантасмагория, переписывание