Ana Blandiana, Sertarul cu aplauze – poetica Döppelgängerului
Ana Blandiana’s The Applause Drawer – The Poetics of the Döppelgänger

Summary/Abstract: This research paper aims at mapping the context in which Ana Blandiana’s novel, Sertarul cu aplauze [The Applause Drawer], appeared and the connections between the above-mentioned book and the poetry volumes written by Ana Blandiana in the ‘80s. The novel fits in the category of unpublished literature of dissent, due to the fact that, in the late ‘80s, Ana Blandiana became a persona non grata for the communist regime and was banned from publishing. Her text envisions a layered dystopic world which mirrors the communist reality. At the same time, the imagery from the novel communicates with motives from the poetry volumes. These recurrent motives and images encompass a self-referential reality, self-sufficient and independent from the reality itself.

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