Răzvan Rădulescu și Teodosie cel mic: Extinderea domeniului luptei
Răzvan Rădulescu and Teodosie cel mic: The Expansion of the Battlefield

Summary/Abstract: Winner of the Writers’ Union of Romania debut fiction prize for the novel “The Life and Deeds of Ilie Cazane” (Cartea Românească, 1997), Răzvan Rădulescu is acknowledged for the publication of his second novel, Little Teodosie (Polirom, 2006), as the creator of a “literary event” (Cernat, 2007). There are no exaggerations whatsoever regarding the author’s virtuosity in creating and maintaining fictional worlds based on the reality of the lost (but not wasted) childhood under the communist regime. Following the logic of the postmodern strategies of text construction – intertextuality, bivalence of the real and imaginary planes, playfulness, irony and self-reference, which Răzvan Rădulescu uses and abuses with an almost childish pleasure – the world of fiction prevails in “Little Teodosie”. This world accessed through language and elaborate tricks of style and stylistic registers, will therefore outclass the real world in importance and significance, thus the novel becoming a eulogy to childhood recovered, an “exceptional metafiction about childhood and death” (Cernat, 2007).

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