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- Title
ГОВОР ТЕЛА МУЗИЛОВЕ НЕМЕ ЈУНАКИЊЕ.
- Authors
Ахметагић, Јасмина М.
- Abstract
In the Robert Musil's short story "Tonka", Tonka's personality, behaviour and, above all, the riddle of her infidelity are the object of reminiscence and subsequent deliberation of the central character, the reflector-character. The main character's gaze is fixed on Tonka's face, eyes, gesture, posture, as she is simple, passive and non-verbal to the extent that she becomes completely opaque to the reflexive mind. The protagonist recognizes the manifestation of personality in Tonka's eyes, but in a social space all meanings perceived in that way are unsustainable once faced with the fact of infidelity. Understanding the language of the female body is his way of getting by in the only domain of her self-expression. The silent and opaque heroine, who is nevertheless conveying something extraordinarily important and is doing so with the whole of her being, which is suggested by the absence of distance between her body and her way of existence, determines the man's life, changes him and brings him to essential questions. The main character's suspicion of Tonka's fidelity undermines his relationship with her, but also with himself, because he faces the unsolvable dilemma: on the one side there is the meaning and value of his own experience, the problem of unrecognized values, and on the other there are solid scientific facts that dispel illusions. Musil's heroine appears as a body in space, to which different meanings are attributed depending on the viewpoint and the light that illuminates it: the body is strongly marked and adds physiological, biological and transcedental dimensions of existence to the semantics of the story. By giving the body an important place, depicting it as the border between the perception of the other and the self, Musil problematizes the relationship between body and spirit, intellect and emotions, reflection and nature, bringing the reader to the following question: where are the mind and the soul?.
- Subjects
MUSIL, Robert, 1880-1942; SELF-perception; SOCIAL space; BODY language; PERSONALITY; REMINISCENCE; DELIBERATION
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 43, p73
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article