Postmodern transformation of the ancient myth of the Minotaur in modern European literature as exemplified by the novels by Jean-Christophe Grangé
Korolev Vladimir Borisovich, Koroleva Eugenia Valentinovna
Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovski
Russian State Agricultural University – MACA named after K. A. Timiryazev
Submitted: 23.08.2024
Abstract. The article focuses on the issue of postmodern reinterpretation of images and plots of ancient mythology in modern European literature. The analysis is based on the detective novels “The Passenger” and “The Black Line” by the French writer Jean-Christophe Grangé. The study aims to confirm the mythopoeic nature of the novels by the writer Jean-Christophe Grangé, who intentionally complicates the semantic field of his works with allusions and reminiscences in order to attract a more educated, literarily sophisticated reader to the genre of “light”, “mass” literature. The study is original in that it is the first one to analyze the novels by Jean-Christophe Grangé from the perspective of their pronounced intertextuality, which, in turn, allows us to talk about the inclusion of the author’s works in the postmodern canvas of modern European prose. As a result of the study, it was found that the participants in the detective conflict in the novels of the French writer, due to plot-forming reasons (memory lapses, fake letters) and the unreliable narrator technique used by Grangé, alternately try on the roles of characters from ancient Greek myths, thereby expanding the semantic sphere of the novels and the possibilities of their interpretations. The mythopoeic saturation of his own works with references to recognizable images and plots becomes an occasion for the writer to involve the reader in an ironic game.
Key words and phrases: Жан-Кристоф Гранже, мифопоэтика повествования, постмодернистская литература, жанр «детектив» в современной европейской прозе, рецепция античного мифа в современной литературе, интерпретация мифа о Минотавре в современной прозе, Jean-Christophe Grangé, mythopoetics of narration, postmodern literature, detective genre in modern European prose, reception of ancient myth in modern literature, interpretation of the myth of the Minotaur in modern prose
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