The Proper Names In The Novels Of Virgil Duda
This article follows the avatars of the onomatics of Virgil Duda’s prose, by analyzing a sample of several relevant novels from the point of view of their proper nouns. Jewish writer, brother of the essayist Lucian Raicu, Virgil Duda defines his writing personality in a much-commented analytical style, with many phrases, either by autobiographical or fictional subjects, circumscribed to the epoch he lived in – before and after the fall of communism. The proper nouns in this prose show a clear interest in this aspect, being secondary but not without function and significance, adequacy and expressiveness being their main qualities.
Keywords: proper nouns, post-war novel, neomodernism, metatext, 60th generation.
