THE MERRY APOCALYPSE OF RADU ȚUCULESCU
THE MERRY APOCALYPSE OF RADU ȚUCULESCU

Summary/Abstract: This study analyses the novel Povestirile mamei bătrâne by Radu Ţuculescu, a novel which has a very productive narrative space: the action takes place in Petra, an isolated Transylvanian village, now condemned to extinction, having an aging population. The stories in the novel display a very skilful narrative game between the past and the present of the settlement, with lively characters, who support the narrative with paradoxical or grotesque incidents. Reality always slips beyond its conventional limit due to a well-established mechanism of producing fiction, maintained by the imagination of the narrators. Mystery and tragedy remain present, even if the dislocated realities create the absurd, they generate comedy, or they produce magic.

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