RE-READING MIRCEA NEDELCIU’S FICTION: AGAINST CRITIC “–ISMS” AND BACK TO THE STORY
RE-READING MIRCEA NEDELCIU’S FICTION: AGAINST CRITIC “–ISMS” AND BACK TO THE STORY

Summary/Abstract: The article (re)assesses the most popular critical perspectives on Mircea Nedelciu’s fiction and the rather common tendency to allocate his work to various literary trends and groups. The purpose of this approach is to draw (specialist) attention (away) from the temptation to conveniently (and unproblematically) classify this highly original author according to various subtrends of Romanian modernism or post-modernism and to(wards) the reconsideration of a key element which seems to have been almost completely overlooked by critical viewpoints so far, as a potential focus point of future (re-)readings: the “story” behind the textual artifices. The proposal is thus to revert the consecrated optics on the topic, i.e., to reconsider the meta-textual surface of the text as an intelligent and intricate, but deceitful “censor trap” and recompose the narrative it was meant to conceal as the main meaning-producing mechanism in Nedelciu’s writing. This would result in a new, richer and more appropriate “reading grid”, allowing not only a re-evaluation, but also a re- (or proper) valuation of this canonical eighties writer.

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