POST-COMMUNIST IRONY AND ANTI-UTOPIA. THE APARTMENT BLOCK AS A SPACE OF MARGINALITY IN SIMION LIFTNICUL [SIMION THE ELEVATOR MAN] BY PETRU CIMPOEȘU
POST-COMMUNIST IRONY AND ANTI-UTOPIA. THE APARTMENT BLOCK AS A SPACE OF MARGINALITY IN SIMION LIFTNICUL [SIMION THE ELEVATOR MAN] BY PETRU CIMPOEȘU

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of our work is to analyse the motif of the apartment block as a space of marginality in the Romanian novel of transition. From an expressive, but also a thematic point of view, the novels of transition involve an interfering area of discursive registers (informative, descriptive, symbolic), creating layers of meaning and various levels of interpretation. We follow the meanings of this motif along a natural hermeneutical route, seeking to reveal its overall complexity, thematic density and specific coherence. At the same time, we briefly present the socio-economic and cultural situation during the communist and post-communist period, we investigate the novelesque technique and we integrate the post-communist anti-utopia in the series of formulas illustrating the novelesque expression of irony. We propose for analysis the novel Simion liftnicul [Simion the Elevator Man] by Petru Cimpoeșu, taking into account that it is representative of the Romanian mentality, cultural background, receptivity, individual and collective psychology, even political-economic factors, in a fictional space whose semantic core irradiates irony in gentle or vehement tones.

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