(Ανα)παραστατικές δοκιμές. Η «Νανότα» του Γρ. Ξενόπουλου: μια ιδιότυπη περίπτωση νατουραλιστικού διηγήματος

Abstract

The subject of the present study is Nanota by Gregorios Xenopoulos, a short story published in 1916 in the magazine Noumas. The approach focuses on the definition of the poetics of the text through the description and analysis of principal text structures. More specifically, the working hypothesis concerns the definition of these poetics by finding the single effect which the text produces through an original, as is proved, handling of its principal signs of genre, mode and style. It is therefore maintained that this short story succeeds in claiming its own peculiar way of articulating itself, both as to the formation of its relatively simple story and as to the different principles of style that frame it. The methodological frame of the research in this case consists of a functional mesh of tools of different origin, considered within the frame of broader conceptual categories. Τhe rationale is structured on four axes, based on which the characteristics of the text that bear significance as regards its interpretation are analysed. Overall, the aim of the present study could be characterized as a threefold one; first, the interpretative approach to the text itself; second, the implementation of certain tools, which, though often doubted as to their “endurance” – perhaps not always unfairly – are here thought to be directly connected with the deep structure of the text; third, the correlation between some terms which, although they might be considered conceptually remote, bring about interesting interpretative results.