Glosszárium

Texts, genres, marginal genres, and their commentaries are surrounded by narrative zones of uncertain outline. Alternative poetic thought is drawn to them: it is interested in the irregular speech forms that penetrate, exist alongside, and surround the narrative genres of discourse. It enters the border zone, the interstices, lingers, and observes. In the process, ideas, interpretive suggestions, glosses, and observations are born. The fragments, simple small structures, fictional and non-fictional forms of speech, the feuilleton, the gloss, and variations, categories, and metaphors of empirical debris forms arising in inter-speech relations, on the periphery and in the overlaps of discursive systems, require a real cadastre, a catalog. From the various rhumbs, scraps of notebooks, notes, pamphlets, and pasted-in pieces, an imaginary inventory is assembled. Theorists consider this a collection of pre-texts, pre- and paratexts, a valuable database for the philologist. Fragmentary writing is an organic part of the comprehensive cultural experience of the 20th century. Its understanding and interpretation do not require a retreat from poetics. The two book covers now opened form a temporary framework into which writings dealing with narrative processes, novels, and short prose are placed. The pages are further filled with fragmented forms of experience, cut-outs, quotes, and references. Objects, segmentation, layout, titles, subtitles, and underlines also fit into this aggregate state. Instead of systematic examination, the fragmentation and irregular forms will, at this moment, remind the note-taker of his tasks in the form of a glossary-paraphrase.