Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020
Abstract
The present study contains a detailed analysis and interpretation of the short stories }}Flocks of Brown Birds(( and }}Whistling(( by the Chinese writer Ge Fei. It demonstrates how repetition of certain textual elements within these short stories disrupts the paradigm of linear time and creates fictional worlds featuring an experimental, 'multi-linear' temporality capable of providing the reader with alternative ways of making sense of the world.
The study then points out the limits of literary language in the construction of such a temporality.