“REGELE PALAELIBUS” BY ISAC LUDO: HISTORY AND FICTION AS IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS
“REGELE PALAELIBUS” BY ISAC LUDO: HISTORY AND FICTION AS IDEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to show how historic personalities of the Romanianinterwar age are represented in Isac Ludo’s novel Regele Palaelibus, which is an ideological representation of the ten-year reign of King Carol II of Romania. This representation is circumscribed to a specific ideological framework in Romanian historiography, the communist framework, advocated by Mihai Roller, a Stalinist historian who falsified Romanian history to serve the interests of the new Russian-supported communist elite. The Romanian personalities analyzed in the paper include King Carol II and leading politicians (party leaders and prime ministers) who influenced political life during the interwar age, such as Iuliu Maniu, IonMihalache, Nicolae Iorga, Octavian Goga and Alexandru C. Cuza. In addition, the paper includes an analysis of the title of the novel, Regele Palaelibus, a name linked to one of the greatest corruption scandals in Romania’s interwar history, the “Skoda Affair”. which rocked the political establishment and the Romanian throne at the time.

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