„Speculum”Narratology in the Contemporary Fairy-tale  „Enciclopedia zmeilor”(”Dragons Ecyclopedia”) Cover Image

Naratologia „speculum” în basmul contemporan „Enciclopedia zmeilor”
„Speculum”Narratology in the Contemporary Fairy-tale „Enciclopedia zmeilor”(”Dragons Ecyclopedia”)

Author(s): Bogdan Raţiu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: double; speculum; narcissistic; mirroring; imaginary; Orient-Occident; Enciclopedia zmeilor

Summary/Abstract: The present paper comes as a continuation of the interpretation dedicated to the narcissistic style, this time trying to offer a general image of the narrative discourse from the relation between author and narrator to the one established between the author and characters, as well as a picture of the actions situated in an area that resembles to the one created in ambiguity by Lewis Carroll. Based on the studies belonging to Ion Bogdan Lefter, Mircea A Diaconu and Luminiţa Chiorean we intend to analyze the way in which the narrative discourse develops some forms of mirroring, which can integrate in the poetics of the double featured by Cărtărescu’s work. We valorize a hermeneutic approach highly influenced by cultural studies. Although the title of the paper presupposes an ample theorization of narratology, we have to mention that we have chosen this term due to the wide range of forms (from narrative techniques, actantial stances, composition elements, to analysis referring to the cultural and allegorical dimension) that the postmodern text valorizes in the work Enciclopedia zmeilor. All of these find themselves under the sign of the mirroring, the quest of the authorial self and of the possible worlds.

  • Issue Year: 16/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 309-318
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian