The narrator and reader position in the story “Autobiography of the Corpse” by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Abstract

The story “Autobiography of the Corpse” is one of the most significant works by Sigismund Krzyzanowski. The article examines main features of an anthropological crisis at the event, narrative and receptive levels of the artistic structure. Infection of the recipient notes corpse way of seeing the introduction of it in the area of transgressive perception and recall of history is one of the main tasks of hero-narrator. Instilling in someone else’s visual-mental space, the unnamed notes author, provides another subject with his own eyes, with the sight of corpse. The situation of mental experiment of the hero upon himself and others, test the existential position of Stamm as that of the addressee of the notes are correlated with the mechanisms of “killing” the consciousness of the reader throughout the novel.