Esta dissertação pretende interpretar o romance Voyage au bout de la nuit, de Louis- Ferdinand Céline, partindo de suas tensões mais elementares, cuja irradiação conduz, entre idas e vindas, a uma ampliação gradual dos termos da discussão. Tomando como ponto de partida a situação narrativa do romance, ou seja, a relação indissolúvel entre narrador e linguagem presente na obra, procura-se tensionar os procedimentos literários desencavados por meio da análise com a tradição do gênero. Em seu aspecto mais amplo, este trabalho visa explorar o caráter bifronte do romance. Tal como a imagem de Janus, Voyage au bout de la nuit se volta, ao mesmo tempo, para o futuro e para o passado: aparece como o último representante de uma linhagem subterrânea de obras cuja origem remonta a Rabelais e como o inaugurador de uma forma romanesca bastante original, profundamente ancorada na realidade de seu tempo. / The aim of this dissertation is to interpret the novel Voyage au bout de la nuit, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, starting from its most elementary tensions, whose irradiation leads, in its backward and forward movements, to a gradual enlargement of the terms of discussion. Taking the novels narrative situation as a starting point, that is to say, the indissoluble relation between narrator and language present in the text, well try to compare the literary procedures, uncovered by means of the analyses, with the tradition of the genre. Such as the image of Janus, Voyage au bout de la nuit turns, at the same time, to the future and the past: It appears as the last representative of an underground lineage of works, whose origins date from Rabelais, and as the founder of a very original novel form, deeply anchored in the reality of its time.

Esta dissertação pretende interpretar o romance Voyage au bout de la nuit, de Louis- Ferdinand Céline, partindo de suas tensões mais elementares, cuja irradiação conduz, entre idas e vindas, a uma ampliação gradual dos termos da discussão. Tomando como ponto de partida a situação narrativa do romance, ou seja, a relação indissolúvel entre narrador e linguagem presente na obra, procura-se tensionar os procedimentos literários desencavados por meio da análise com a tradição do gênero. Em seu aspecto mais amplo, este trabalho visa explorar o caráter bifronte do romance. Tal como a imagem de Janus, Voyage au bout de la nuit se volta, ao mesmo tempo, para o futuro e para o passado: aparece como o último representante de uma linhagem subterrânea de obras cuja origem remonta a Rabelais e como o inaugurador de uma forma romanesca bastante original, profundamente ancorada na realidade de seu tempo. / The aim of this dissertation is to interpret the novel Voyage au bout de la nuit, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, starting from its most elementary tensions, whose irradiation leads, in its backward and forward movements, to a gradual enlargement of the terms of discussion. Taking the novels narrative situation as a starting point, that is to say, the indissoluble relation between narrator and language present in the text, well try to compare the literary procedures, uncovered by means of the analyses, with the tradition of the genre. Such as the image of Janus, Voyage au bout de la nuit turns, at the same time, to the future and the past: It appears as the last representative of an underground lineage of works, whose origins date from Rabelais, and as the founder of a very original novel form, deeply anchored in the reality of its time.

In this paper, I analyze and compare the novel The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon with the filmscript by Tracy Oliver for the 2019 movie adaptation. First, I demonstrate how the narrative in The Sun Is Also a Star deals with the literary ideas of fate and destiny and how scholars have defined the concepts. Secondly, I argue that the filmscript is a literary text that can be equated to the novel in a literary analysis of their narrative features. I claim that the narrative features of the novel and the filmscript embody fate and destiny in different ways because of the differences in their narrative situations and thought representations. I argue that the narrative situation of the novel, with its authorial narrator and narrative levels, embodies a relationship between fate and destiny as different perspectives are put into focus in the narration. However, the filmscript embodies these concepts as distinct because the narrative situation of the heterodiegetic narrator does not represent the same connectedness. I then maintain this argument as the filmscript in its thought representation and replacement of it with images and speech representation continues to portray the concepts as separate. In contrast, the thought representation of the novel embodies the relationship between the concepts because the thoughts represent connectedness and cause and effect. In my concluding remarks, I look at possible areas of future research.

This diploma thesis deals with the novella The end of the nylon age written by Josef Škvorecký in 1950. It explores the text from a literary historical, literary theoretical and literary "practical", editorial point of view. After the introduction of author's work in necessary period and factual context the thesis focuses on the iterpretation of the novella, its narrative situation and the resulting structure of the text. The thesis then deals with dialogues and dialogic characteristics of the novella. The closing part pays attention to the textological issues - creating of an annotation system to the book. The novella is being related to other artist's work within each theme throughout the entire thesis.