TRAVELING TO THE FALSE INITIATION
TRAVELING TO THE FALSE INITIATION

Summary/Abstract: The postmodernist techniques in the Romanian prose: fragmentarism, intertextuality, libretto, collage, interference between the high and the weak ones are united by the ironic, ludic spirit that minuses all levels of the text, both the narrative, the meaningful, the self-referential. The individual as a strong, authentic entity is problematic in postmodernity, and his reflection in the literary work will become a second-degree image lacking in substance and coherence. The road appears in M. Cărtărescu's Levant, in a twisted manner, it is not the great way of becoming, of the discovering destiny and of accomplishing it, but of a suite of second-tier road fragments. The image of this inferior, fragmented labyrinth, built from canals, streets, valleys, cellars, grottos, descending steps, is the reflection of obsessions and disorientation of the characters who inhabit this world without meaning and perspective.

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