Constructing heterotopias a spatial critique of Laszlo Krasznahorkais select fiction

Abstract

A study of the spatial representations in literature opens up a changing newlineworld where new spatial experiences and perplexities get constructed. newlineLiterature emerges from the human life in social space where spatial relations newlineand spatial practices converge to reproduce represented spaces, which are newlineparadigmatic representations of power relations. The thesis tries to unravel the newlinepolitics of spatiality in the select fictional works of the Hungarian writer newlineLaszlo Krasznahorkai. The concepts of Other spaces, heterotopia and newlinepanopticon, as formulated by Foucault and modified by other poststructuralist newlinetheorists, form the theoretical underpinning of the study. newline