Constructing Meaning in Apostolidis' Pyramid 67

Abstract

  Apostolidis' Pyramid 67 goes far beyond the function of a fictional testimony and its primary goal of documenting the individual experience of a collectively important event. It is, rather, a quest for truth that acknowledges authentically personal and therefore differing perceptions and interpretations of the past. The constant oscillation between observation and reflection, external and internal focalization, thereby renders a truth that is not given and absolute, but partial, provisional, and constructed. The novel displays in fiction how individual consciousness creates a certain reality, thus it both depicts the world as illuminated by consciousness as well as the phenomenological process itself in the act of perceiving and interpreting events. The reader, too, is made to experience this vision of reality, assuming to him-or herself the viewpoint of a constitutive consciousness.