出版社：Editura Universităţii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iaşi
摘要：This article proposes a reading of Lewis Carroll’s fictional works in the light of the Derridean concept of hauntologie/hauntology transplanted to the field of literary interpretation. From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Phantasmagoria (1869), through the second Alice book (1872) and The Hunting of the Snark (1876), to Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Carrollian fictions reveal an increasing spectre awareness and an increasing taste for experimenting with meaning in a world that is less and less definite, less and less precisely shaped. The phantasms haunting these texts hover between visible/shown and hidden, between known and unknown, between presence and absence, between reason and nonsense, between life and death. They shake and compromise all certainty, they bring about fear, confusion and doubt. But they also illuminate, they “teach” any intelligent observer how to open to more than one way of thinking, of understanding, of being, how to overcome loss, and failure, and limits, how to conjure the past and the future in one single moment, in a tiny time fraction consequently able to expand to infinity. Lewis Carroll’s ghosts are meant to function as paradoxical (but most efficient) guides for the perplexed – even when they seem to mislead, or deter, or simply not care. They are always there – here – for a (good) reason.
关键词：Lewis Carroll; spectres; hauntologie/hauntology (Derrida); fear; confusion; guides for the perplexed; illumination; new different ways of understanding and being
