The Allegorical History – Affective Reality and Fictional Discourse in Ştefan Agopian’s Handbook of Happenings Cover Image

Istoria alegorică – realitate afectivă şi discurs ficţional în Manualul întâmplărilor de Ştefan Agopian
The Allegorical History – Affective Reality and Fictional Discourse in Ştefan Agopian’s Handbook of Happenings

Author(s): Maria, Epatov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: postmodern fairytale;allegorical history;travel;emotional memory;allegorical valences;

Summary/Abstract: Manualul întâmplărilor by Ştefan Agopian is a postmodern fairytale of the attempts to establish the rules at the base of the good functioning of the universe, composing a game of the interdiscursive memory that slides between real and fantastic, reality and dream, allegoric history and utopia, grotesque and sublime, sacred and diabolical. The short study intends to explore the allegoric valences of travelling in a world that progressively builds itself as intratextual memory, a world beyond time, a world in which the memory of shapes generates a universe at the border between contemplation and the need to verbalize a Logos, a world in which emotional memory is essential, enabling the exit from time and space limits.

  • Issue Year: XXX/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 159-164
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian