A stylistic challenge in a reinvented novel: "The Death Who Comes, Goes and Comes" by Virgil Tanase Cover Image

O provocare stilistică într-un roman reinventat: „Moartea care vine, pleacă şi iar vine” de Virgil Tănase
A stylistic challenge in a reinvented novel: "The Death Who Comes, Goes and Comes" by Virgil Tanase

Author(s): Iuliana Barna
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: literature; metaphorical symbols; identity;

Summary/Abstract: Virgil Tănase makes his debut as a novelist and playwright in a foreign country, in another language which, at first, his inner self does not feel too close: „To live a writer’s life, anywhere near authenticity, I had – mind you – to ‘carve out’ my works in a language different from the one I learnt at home”. The personalised language of the writing is more often than not dominated by a poetical and metaphorical sense which obturates the reader’s access to the natural course of the writing for a few moments. But Virgil Tănase, with his keen spirit, with his perfect directorial sensibility, mastering the modern and postmodern epic techniques, concocts apparently illogical puns and later on, at the end of the narrative maze, one discovers an open, transparent and lucid writing, with a lively and chameleonic style responsible here and there of the reader’s perplexity.

  • Issue Year: I/2018
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 273-277
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian