The existential analytic as a possible guide for a literary hermeneutics

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to raise the idea of a possible literary hermeneutics based on an existential analytics. The task of specifically literary hermeneutics is to establish a sense of the literary work. This sense is often referred to the exposure of a particular lifestyle. In the case of some novels, such narrative is the central issue or argument. But the exposure of a way of life implies an understanding, no matter how general and provisional it may be, of life itself and its way of being. Thus, a literary interpretation that places at its core an exposure (description, critic, praise, etc.) of a way of life as an element that sets the direction of the work, can suppose and even need an hermeneutics of life. This title may be a paraphrase of “existential analytics”, or “hermeneutics of human existence”, in short, of “Being and Time.”