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Avatarele cenzurii și condiția umană într-o societate post-utopică
Avatars of Censorship and the Human Condition in a Post-utopian Society

Author(s): Constantin Ivanov
Subject(s): Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Institutul de Filologie Română „Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu”
Keywords: identity; memory; historical truth; conscience; censure; post-utopia; freedom; representation;

Summary/Abstract: In this study are analyzed the dilemmas of the system and the censorship that mark the post-utopian society (a possible society) that can limit certain freedoms of the individual limits. Starting from some fictional representations (possible worlds) we could observe that the most serious problem for a people is erasing the past from the collective memory by changing the perception of the historical truth or relativizing it. In this sense, making use of the tools specific to the comparative approach, we analyzed the imaginary universe of the novel Amintiri din epoca lui Bibi: o post-utopie by Andrei Cornea, in which extensive recourse is made to memory, while developing social dilemmas and paradigms behavioral. We also noticed, from a compositional point of view, the novel is an allegorical projection of a society marked by the problem of lack of memory, but also of the condition of the individual in a post-utopian society that has not definitively renounced repressive means.

  • Issue Year: LXV/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 77-90
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian