Cămaşa în carouri şi alte 10 întâmplări din Bucureşti sau despre puzzle-ul narativ în opera Doinei Ruşti
The Checkered Shirt and 10 Other Stories from Bucharest: the Narrative Puzzle în Doina Ruşti’s Work

Summary/Abstract: Doina Ruşti’s book is a volume of stories that, through the narrative threads, that provide the thematic coherence of the book and connect with other stories, can be considered a novel in the true sense of the word. This is the place where the first faults of reality appear, the first signs of fantastic phenomena that will be manifested with varying frequency and intensity throughout the other prose. The author prints a playful style to the book and seems to play with the space-time continuum more than Einstein. The fantastic prose written by Doina Ruşti is in the descent of Eliade’s novels, but we can remark the originality of the style and the reader’s involvement in the decipherment act of the text. The insistence on the space of Bucharest also reminds us of Eliade, the screen on which the fantastic percussions of the characters are projected. Interestingly, this frame is not two-dimensional, but it has the historical depth of stories such as that of Ema-Bojorina or stories like that of Iane Farmacistu, a 18th –century figure in Bucharest. Thus, the image of a prose volume of thematic originality and the indisputable stylistic refinement is outlined.

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