DEVENIRI RUTENE DE IERI ȘI DE AZI – APOCALIPSA RUSINĂ DE FRANCISC OSCAR GAÁL
RUTENIAN DEVELOPMENTS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY – THE SHAMEFUL APOCALYPSE BY FRANCISC OSCAR GAÁL

Author(s): Raluca Giurgiulescu
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: culture; ethnicity; poetics; history; disclosure;
Summary/Abstract: Ethnicity, ethnic belonging has always represented elements that require the most complex approaches, capable of capturing both historical and social and cultural particularities. The movement to revive the Ruthenian identity in the Central Eastern European space has old roots, but it experienced a considerable development in the nineties, after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The good communication between the Ruthenians located in different state territories, corroborated with the specific political approaches and the promotion of some cultural activities, led to a new stage in the distinct affirmation of the Ruthenian identity. Although it is aware of the theory of Ruthenism, the present study is not of a philo-Ruthean type but aims to critically analyse a literary endeavour undertaken by a writer belonging to this ethnicity. Given the fact that the object of the research is a historical novel, Apocalipsa rusină (Ruthenian Apocalypse) by Francisc Oscar Gaál, the connection with certain elements related to the history of the Ruthenians becomes - sine qua non - a theoretical component of the research. Beyond the level of historical reception, which confers an ontic type of vision and generates the remaking of an era, the study pursues elements of the novel's poetics, literary comparatism, as well as identifying the mechanisms of objective reading.

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