The image of theatre and the issue of the character’s identity in I. Bergman’s “Laterna Magica”
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-8-64-74
Abstract
This article analyses the ways in which character is represented in I. Bergman’s autobiography “Laterna Magica”. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the theatre image. Exactly thanks to that image a complex and multi-leveled system of the character’s self-identification emerges in I. Bergman’s autobiography. In addition to drawing a clear boundary between self-in-the-past and self-in-the-present, Bergman’s reflection on his past also highlights his inherent play with the illusion and reality, through which he easily draws the line between his chosen role, “guise” and “authentic self”. The image of theatre in Bergman’s autobiography thus cannot, on the one hand, be separated from the emotionally experienced biographical reality of the author, but at the same time the topos of European culture “the world as a theatre” refers to the existing structural components of that reflection, which does not belong to the field of subjective experience, making its position in autobiography special and important in terms of defining the specificity of the genre.
About the Author
A. R. Gimatdinova
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aigul R. Gimatdinova, postgraduate student
bld. 6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow,125047
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Gimatdinova A.R. The image of theatre and the issue of the character’s identity in I. Bergman’s “Laterna Magica”. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2021;1(8):64-74. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2021-8-64-74
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