Bosman’s Charmed World as a Contemplative Space that Brings out the Meaningfulness of Things
摘要
This chapter considers further the relation of the redemptive and fulfilling treatment of things in Bosman’s light fiction to the charmed world its readers experience. In this context, it also considers the character of that charmed world in its own right. The argument is that Bosman’s devices of humorous illogic establish a vantage point that partly consists in patently unreal elements. This is therefore a perspective which makes no genuine point and makes no genuine judgment. As a result, it lets reality emerge without the potentially distorting interference of arbitrary particular perspectives and pre-decisions about what makes sense. That is, it allows reality to emerge simply as it is. Since this perspective’s focus is specifically the sense or meaning of the relevant reality, it allows us in particular to recognize what the thing truly means. As a result, part of what we can recognize are the ways in which the thing is truly meaningful.