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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   THE SELF AT THE CROSSROAD (FIGURING THE PRESENT IN THE CONTEMPORARY BRITISH NOVEL).

Authors:  SANDA BERCE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The paper aims to identify and to discuss the major problems the contemporary (and postmodern) self displays as subject to a an identity crisis generated by the ‘age of information’ and by the evolution of information technology which has led to a reconfiguration of the human being’s position in the world. The function played by fiction is further analyzed and the novel is thought to be an attempt to give voice to self-consciousness as an antidote to the self’s phobia of standardization. Two novels Thinks… (2001), Author, Author (2004) and Consciousness and the Novel (2002), a book of non-fiction by David Lodge are used for the site of this demonstration.

Keywords: information age, interaction, space re-mapping, narrative identity, thematic variability, psychobiography 		 
         
     
         
         
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