Преходът в прозата на Дубравка Угрешич, Светлана Алексиевич и Руксандра Чесеряну
The Transition in the Works of Dubravka Ugrešić, Svetlana Aleksievich and Ruxandra Cesereanu

Author(s): Liudmila Mindova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Croatian Literature, Romanian Literature, Russian Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: post-communism; transition; post-Yugoslav; Balkan and post-totalitarian literatures
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines post-Yugoslav, post-Soviet and Romanian literary images of the Transition through the prose and essays of Dubravka Ugrešić, Svetlana Aleksievich and Ruxandra Cesereanu. The analysis focuses on Ugrešić’s novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender (1997), Secondhand Time. The Last of the Soviets (2013) by Alexievich and the novel Angelus (2010) by the Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu. The Croatian Ugrešić and the Belarusian Aleksievich are the same age. The Romanian Cesereanu is a representative of the next generation, but she has also attracted attention with her theoretical and historical research on political repression and labor camps in communist Romania. In the works of all three writers, catastrophic and apocalyptic events and images predominate, while also including angel images in an original way.

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