Abstract:

Τhe idea of destroying the iconic national symbol of the Parthenon is scandalous—or even inconceivable. The Parthenon was monumentalized in the nineteenth century and, ever since, it has borne the traces of the acts that discursively and institutionally constructed it or destroyed it. Literature, as an agent of institutionalization and resistance, has both contributed to, and resisted, the cultural practice of monumentalization. The Parthenon Bomber (1996/2010), a novella by Christos Chrissopoulos, is inscribed in a lineage of Modern Greek literary texts resisting monumentalization. Chrissopoulos's novella, originally published in 1996 and revised in 2010, asks the question Can literature be explosive? and challenges literature's relationship to historicity and contingency. At a moment when Greece's connection to its classical past is being reconfigured under the impact of the Greek crisis and of national and international responses to it, the novella's significance in the present deserves renewed attention. By blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, The Parthenon Bomber performs an act of resistance to monumentalization in real life and introduces the possibility of a New Parthenon.

摘要：

摧毁帕台农神庙的标志性国家象征的想法是可耻的，甚至是不可思议的。帕台农神庙在19世纪被纪念碑化，从那以后，它就一直存在着行为的痕迹，这些行为在话语上和制度上构造或摧毁了它。作为制度化和抵抗的媒介，文学既对纪念性的文化实践做出了贡献，也对其进行了抵制。克里斯托弗·克里斯索普洛斯（Christos Chrissopoulos）创作的中篇小说《帕台农神庙轰炸机》（Parthenon Bomber，1996/2010）刻在抗拒纪念性的现代希腊文学作品的谱系中。克里斯索普洛斯的中篇小说最初发表于1996年，2010年进行了修订，提出了一个问题：文学是否具有爆炸性？并挑战文学与历史性和偶然性的关系。在希腊危机以及国家和国际对危机的影响的影响下，当希腊与古典历史的联系被重新配置时，中篇小说在当前的意义值得再次关注。通过模糊小说与现实之间的界限，帕台农神庙轰炸机在现实生活中表现出抵抗纪念性建筑的举动，并提出了建立新帕台农神庙的可能性。