The theme of my master's thesis is the concept of holes. The basis for the theoretical part is Beckett’s quote that the writer’s task is to drill holes in language. I examine an unusual use of language in literature, which could be called a hole, because it undermines the order of language and thus the way meaning is created. The latter is obscured or seemingly absent in the given examples. For the literary examples, I use the theory of Deleuze and Dolar, supplemented by Kusters, who writes about this kind of violence against language using the example of psychosis and mysticism. The central interest of the theoretical work is the effect of the hole on the content, which makes the hole more than a mere absence. The practical part of the work is the comic book Holes, which brings together several original texts on the theme of holes or voids: waiting, forgetting, losing. I also describe the peculiarities and curiosities of creating a comic book.
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