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Tipologii de reprezentare ale comunismului: strategia distopică

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Magazine: 5 / 2015
Date: 2015
Andrei SIMUȚ
Academia Română
andrei.simut@gmail.com

Abstract

Types of Representing the Communism: The Dystopian Strategy

The article’s premise is that there are three tipologies of representing the communist past in the Romanian post-communist novel. The article focuses on the first typology, describes its main features, and then concentrates on an emblematic example of the first representation, Bujor Nedelcovici’s The Second Messenger. The main features are: the great appeal for satire and dystopia, the emphasis on memory, morality and the dialectics between truth and oblivion imposed by the totalitarian world upon the protagonist in these dystopian novels.

Keywords: dystopian fiction, typologies of representation, the communist past, Bujor Nedelcovici, satire, antihegemonic discourse.

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