LIMBAJ EŞUAT ŞI ONTOLOGIE POLITICĂ. O PERSPECTIVĂ CRITICĂ ASUPRA ROMANULUI RITUALUL BESTIEI
Failed Language and Political Ontology. A Critical View upon The Ritual of The Beast Novel

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses upon the depiction of communism as main theme of The Ritual of the Beast (Ritualul Bestiei) novel, written by Cornel Nistea. More precisely, our research aims at investigating, from a cultural and literary perspective, the ways in which the representation of the Romanian communism configures the relationship between reality and literature, between history and fiction, placing the novel in a realm of aesthetical uncertainty. We point out that the language of Power (the language of the unique Party, of the communist ideology) evolves into the power of language, transforming the novel’s characters into simple instances of an anti-communist or hyper-communist discourse. We examine the arising of a new ontology, a political-ontology that can be interpreted in a realistic key, but also through the lens of the Absurd.

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