ORIZONTURI PRAGMATICE ALE ABSURDULUI TRAGIC: O LECTURA SEMIOTICA A LUI ALBERT CAMUS

Abstract

In my paper, I focus on some pragmatic aspects of Albert Camus's concept of tragical absurdity. I'm interested in analyzing Camus's reflexive parable from a semiotic standpoint; its importance resides in the fact that it proves that a work has the possibility of moving across spaces and epochs. This translates into the situation that the work may lose the connections with the initial context of its production. Moreover, this leads to decontextualisation and to a fundamental ambiguity – that of the text that is in the danger of being fully closed in itself. The semiotic effort becomes now necessary in the quest for new and suitable interpretations, but we have to keep in mind the fact that this effort starts from just a few clues that are still left behind, and this leaves open the possibility of different interpretations, that depend on the context of the receiver.