A SYINTHETIC RETROSPECTIVE REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF THE SPACE-TIME ALLOY IN THE PROSE OF THE 70’S Cover Image

A SYINTHETIC RETROSPECTIVE REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF THE SPACE-TIME ALLOY IN THE PROSE OF THE 70’S
A SYINTHETIC RETROSPECTIVE REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF THE SPACE-TIME ALLOY IN THE PROSE OF THE 70’S

Author(s): Alina-Roxana Mușat (Stoian)
Subject(s): Fiction, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: perspective; chronotype; congruence; untwine; poetic;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is the identification of theories referring to the configuration of Romanian perspective on time and space, the way it crystalizes itself in the option of 70’s, with the necessary references to the narrative experiences proposed by the new French novel and, in subsidiary, by the anglo-saxon one. The exegesis is interested in the reconfiguration, in the meta novels of the 70’s, of a new poetic of space and time, closely following the manner in which the two dimensions intertwine or, as the case, untwine in the works of representative authors of this cultural and political space. After a thorough analysis of the narrative dynamics we find that in the configuration of the texts we deal with there is an abundance of interdependence between space and time. The binder of the literary chronotype proves itself, in this case, its consubstantiality through the diversity of reporting on the spiral from honorific to involuntary memory, a step which unveils narrative spaces and times reconfigured in the 70’s novel through the blueprint of a coherent network between the societal dynamic and the relativity of the literary phenomenon found, in his turn, in the position of an operative agent in history. The hypothesis from which we start reclaims from the option of 70’s novelists its ability to oppose the modern blueprint revived by Marin Preda, Dumitru Radu Popesu, Nicolae Breban, Ștefan Bănulescu and so on, with the hopes of taking part in the making of a work placed on the limen between “to write” and “to be”. In other words, part of a work lowered off of the “art for art” pedestal and let free to find and attach itself to the supremacy of the empty forms by any historical meaning. The difference which we highlight is part of a narrative register, precisely from the novels of the 70’s class which propose to rediscover the hidden face of immediate reality and to probe the layers of depth of historical truth. In these books there will be a type which we have categorized as the “new political novel”, in equal measure realistic and objective, type which attempts a rearticulation of “personal duration” accepted as a metamorphosis of time and space.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 340-350
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian