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- Title
THE FANTASTIC REVISITED IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY FICTION.
- Authors
POPA, CATRINEL
- Abstract
In the present article we'll focus on several novels that attempt at rewriting the recent past of ex-communist countries by bringing into foreground the political police, an institution that embodied in totalitarian regimes the notion of the absolute Evil. What distinguishes such writings as Dumnezeiţele din Moravia [The Goddesses of Žítková] by Katerina Tučková, György Dragoman's Rugul [The Bone Fire], and Răzvan Rădulescu's Viaţa şi faptele lui Ilie Cazane [The Life and Deeds of Elijah Cazane] appears to be the manner in which their authors succeed in conveying a complex, polyphonal representation of the communist past by using fantastic or grotesque elements, instruments that prove their efficiency anytime an irrational reality shatters our values and beliefs.
- Subjects
MODERN literature; EAST European literature; BELIEF &; doubt; COMMUNISM; COMMUNISTS
- Publication
Annals of the University of Bucharest, Studies of Romanian Language & LIterature / Analele Universităţii Bucureşti. Limba şi Literatura Română, 2019, p73
- ISSN
1220-0271
- Publication type
Article