Trudności klasyfikacji gatunkowej tekstu współczesnego na przykładzie „Błękitu” Tedźi Grower

Abstract

This article aims to examine what genre “Blue” by Teji Grover, a contemporary Hindi writer, represents. A genological study of the work is a part of a broader research on methodology for analyzing contemporary literature. This is particularly important in the context of contemporary Hindi literature, because of the dual origin (Indian and Western) of modern genres (such as novel or short story), and also of the fact that there are very few studies on forms and techniques of Hindi storytelling/narration. The first part of the article contains a general description of the work, its narration, content, subject and personae. In the next part, I discuss the development of Hindi prose, giving an outline of the history of literary genres within the Hindi literature, emphasising its polysemy and multithreaded nature, and thus – the complexity of its description / analysis. Since in the case of “Blue”, the problem with specifying its literary genre is closely linked with its subject, which is open, in search of his/her identity, self-creating in the process of writing, depending on the criteria used, the text can be classified into many genres, eg. nouveau roman, internal monologue, a quasi-autobiography. It could be seen as an example of the open work (Eco) – ambiguous, open to concretization (of genre, and in interpretation).