Culorile tainice ale trecutului. Miraculos şi policromie şi în proza românească actuală
The secret colours of the past. Miraculous and polychromy in the contemporary Romanian prose

Summary/Abstract: From the perspective of this article’s author, a certain tendency of resuscitating the paradigmatic, poetic, and symbolic dimension of the discourse can be noticed regarding the novels of historical inspiration appeared within the last years, which cannot be completely separated by a more and more obvious inclination towards the recovery of the visual, of the pictorial, and ultimately of the colour in the art of word. On one hand, all these aspects contribute to reconfigurations of some venerable categories (“the fantastic”, “the miraculous”), and on the other hand they can ease the dislocation or rather the resemantization of certain stereotypes which circulate for a long time within the literary criticism and the history of literature. Mainly based on the novels of Diana Adamek (Adio, Margot) and Doina Ruşti (Manuscrisul fanariot), the analysis revealed to the author, among other things, the fact that the imaginary infusion plays a crucial role in the new novel of historical inspiration, allowing the vision of the past to articulate itself in a lacunar and selective way, often by favouring the colourful detail, the atmosphere, the sensorial as opposed to the homogenizing project of the great legitimizing narratives of the past or the fact that, for the contemporary public, this kind of prose, with its polychrome coatings plays the role of a polyphonic instrument: it satisfies the appetite for spectacle, mystery, and living by a proxy, raising, on the other hand, ethical and epistemological problems.

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