Life between biography and bibliography.
Fictions and autofictions Life bears its own fictions and any attempts of systematization fail, regardless of how much the discourse is willing to indicate, clarify or deny. Most of the times, the writer’s wonder is synonymous with the programmatic writing down of „self denouncements”, „manifestos”, reprises of stories, biographies and articles. Memory becomes for Radu Cosasu the filter for coincidences and analyses, a waiting room for stories locked in chests, ample monologues. Introspection is possible within the limits of an absolute solitude, whose echo transcends life stories.
1. Radu Cosaşu, Ficţionarii, Bucureşti, Editura Cartea Românească, 1983, p. 19.
2. Paul de Man, „Autobiography as De-facement“, în MLN, vol. 94, nr. 5, Comparative Literature, dec. 1979, John Hopkins University Press, p. 919-930: „Autobiography seems to depend on actual and potentially verifiable events in a less ambivalent way than fiction does. It seems to belong to a simpler mode of referentiality, of representation, and of diegesis. It may contain lots of phantasms and dreams, but these deviations from reality remain rooted in a single subject whose identity is defined by the uncontested readability of his proper name“.
3. Vezi, în acest sens, şi Allegories of Reading.
4. Paul de Man, art. cit.,p. 922: „The specular moment that is part of all understanding reveals reliable self-knowledge – it does not – but that it demonstrates in a striking way the imposibility of closure and of totalization (that is the imposibility of coming into being) of all textual systems made up of tropological substitutions“.
5. Radu Cosaşu, Ficţionarii, p. 24.
6. Radu Cosaşu, Autodenunţări şi precizări (plus câteva note informative, o addenda şi spovedania unui convins), Bucureşti, Editura Hasefer, 2001, p. 5.
7. Idem, p. 8-10.
8. Idem, p. 22.
9. Alexandru Matei, „Radu Cosaşu“, în România liberă, 11 octombrie 2007, p. 23.
10. Irina Petraş, Literatură română contemporană. O panoramă, Bucureşti, Editura Ideea Europeană, 2008, p. 323.
Primary bibliography:
Cosaşu, Radu, Autodenunţări şi precizări (plus câteva note informative, oaddenda şi spovedania unui convins) / Selfdenunciations and circumstantions, Bucureşti, Editura Hasefer, Bucureşti, 2001.
Cosaşu, Radu, Ficţionarii / The Fictionars, Bucureşti, Editura Cartea Românească, 1983.
Secondary bibliography:
Babel, Isaac, Armata de cavalerie / Red Cavalry Bucureşti, Editura pentru Literatură Universală, 1965.
Lejeune, Philippe, Le pacte autobiographique / The autobiographical pact, nouvelle édition augmentée, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1996.
Manolescu, Nicolae, Istoria critică a literaturii române / The critical history of Romanian literature, Piteşti, Editura Paralela 45, 2008.
Petraş, Irina, Literatură română contemporană. O panoramă / Contemporary Romanian literature. A panorama, Bucureşti, Editura Ideea Europeană, 2008.
Articles:
De Man, Paul, „Autobiography as De-facement“, în MLN, vol. 94, nr. 5, Comparative Literature, John Hopkins University Press, decembrie 1979.
Matei, Alexandru, „Radu Cosaşu“, în România liberă, 11 octombrie 2007.
