Suspended and Surrogate Identities in Mircea Nedelciu’s Fiction
The following article discusses the tension between socially imposed identity patterns and the need for self-definition in Mircea Nedelciu’s fiction, showing that the totalitarian framework of the communist regime is allusively and symbolically represented in Nedelciu’s writings as a context undermining personal identity, or, in other words, as a context „suspending” self-determination in favour of highly ideological, ready-made „surrogate” identity patterns. However, Nedelciu’s prominent preference for protagonists presenting confuse, irresolute identities is meant to illustrate that at the individual level, all reactions cannot be predicted and controlled…
Keywords: suspended identity, surrogate identity, amoralism, communist regime, social patterns, ready-made ideological patterns, self-definition