Valeriu Gherghel, Non sequitur
Non sequitur
Some literary critics (and they are many) say that a text is uninterpretable precisely because it carries many (excessively so) explanations and interpretations. In other words: a certain text is uninterpretable precisely because it is interpretable. This is one strange statement! Only under one circumstance, a text (a parable, a poem, a fable, etc.) is uninterpretable. With regard to this matter R. M. Albérès was right: Interpretation is possible when the text is “unbelievable and irrational”. Only the irrational is truly uninterpretable. I’m not sure though whether a “unbelievable and irrational” writing has got any aesthetic value. I very much doubt it
Keywords: hermeneutics, principle of simplicity, uninterpretability, unreadability
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