Les Jeux sont faits! Cărtărescu by Cortázar
This paper offers an interpretation of Mircea Cărtărescu’s short story REM through the perspective of the post-modern palimpsest derived from Julio Cortázar’s End of the Game. The dialogue to which Cărtărescu co-opts Cortázar is read not as an inter-textual post-modern quotation, but as a self-legitimating attempt of Cărtărescu to build an intrinsic, self-sufficient textual coherence.
Keywords: Julio Cortázar, Mircea Cărtărescu, intertextualitate, citare postmodernă, intentio operis