Memoria recentă: sfârșitul și începutul istoriei
Recent memory: the ending and the beginning of history
Author(s): Roxana RogobeteSubject(s): Fiction, Recent History (1900 till today), Novel, Romanian Literature, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: post-communism; Romanian post-1989 novel; history; memory; identity;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from several post-1989 novels (The Heaven of the Hens by Dan Lungu, The Bride and Groom of Immortality by Radu Aldulescu, Coming from an Off-Key Time by Bogdan Suceavă), the study aims to analyze the metamorphoses of history in post-communism’s literary memory. From the satire of conspiracies and bigotry, to the radiography of the marginalized and the miserable world, to the humorous peddling, the three texts depict a return to the story and narrative – which at the same time involves the need for legitimizing practices of identity in post-1989 period. Assumed with playfulness or distortion, the novels offer chronicles of the times that cannot evoke freedom: the intertwining of the “real” shows the societal stereotypes that are still perpetuated in the “everyday of memory”.
Journal: Quaestiones Romanicae
- Issue Year: IX/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 400-409
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Romanian