Lawsuits prompted by defamation in fiction prose (e.g., in M. Pikalo’s novel) are the symptom of postmodern legal regulation of public discourse and of the deterioration of the ideology of aesthetic autonomy. The historical basis of the conflict predates to the 19 th c. (the public, literary field, realism, the autonomy of artistic and legal subjects). The theoretical basis of the lawsuits is in the opposition of fiction vs. reality. It is deconstructed by the concepts of possible worlds, trans-world identity, and the referentiality of personal names/descriptions.
|