Summary Taking as point of departure Frenkel’s notion of contemporary, post-transitional South African writing as palimpsestic, and Genette’s theory of inter-/hypertextuality in terms of palimpsest, the article examines Nthikeng Mohlele’s novel Michael K as an inter- textual appropriation of Coetzee’s Life & Time of Michael K. Employing theories of intertextuality from Kristeva to Genette, Riffaterre, Frow and Hutcheon, it shows how Coetzee’s novel, which is inscribed, in turn, as hypertext over earlier source texts, or hypotexts, by Kafka and Kleist, presents the problem of textual inscrutability and resistance to authority in the intractable figure of K Mohlele addresses this textual conundrum by appropriating K and giving him two afterlives in his own novel: first as fictional character, and secondly as metafictional subject. Mohlele’s reader is left with the final image of his eponymous Michael K as a figure who, like his fictional precursor(s), resists appropriation, escapes from authority, and whose presence is paradoxically predicated on absence.

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缺席的存在：Nthikeng Mohlele 在迈克尔 K 中的互文挪用

总结 以 Frenkel 的当代、后过渡时期的南非写作为翻版的概念和 Genette 的基于翻版的互文/超文本理论作为出发点，本文考察了 Nthikeng Mohlele 的小说迈克尔 K 作为对库切生活的互文挪用& 迈克尔 K 的时间。采用从 Kristeva 到 Genette、Riffaterre、Frow 和 Hutcheon 的互文性理论，它展示了库切的小说是如何被刻画的，反过来，作为超文本，卡夫卡和克莱斯特的早期源文本或亚文本，呈现K Mohlele 难以捉摸的人物中的文本不可理解性和对权威的抵抗问题通过挪用 K 并在他自己的小说中给他两个来世来解决这个文本难题：首先是虚构人物，其次是元小说主题。Mohlele 的读者只剩下他的同名迈克尔 K 作为一个人物的最终形象，就像他的虚构先驱一样，抵制挪用，逃避权威，而且他的存在自相矛盾地以缺席为前提。