Surrealism and Postmodernism in Shoe-type loves. Umbrella-type loves... Cover Image

Suprarealism şi postmodernism în Iubirile de tip pantof. Iubirile de tip umbrelă
Surrealism and Postmodernism in Shoe-type loves. Umbrella-type loves...

Author(s): Lenuţa-Otilia NIŢU (DOINA)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: Matei Vișniec;surrealist;theater;love;death;

Summary/Abstract: Published in 2016, Matei Vișniec’s novel entitled Shoe-type loves. Umbrella-type loves… reveals an existence as authentic as it is surprising by appealing to a surrealist imaginary. The various themes that Matei Vișniec proposes in the 73 chapters of his novel initially seem to give rise to a unique but fragmented story. As the title suggests, the fragments speak of love, they also talk about death, as any reader notices the cyclic structure of the novel; they are ultimately about theater, because the author offers, by quoting his own characters, at least 100 definitions of the term, and they are also about food, because there is a highly poetic description of French breakfast.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 69-77
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian