FACING HISTORY. RADU ȚUCULESCU`S MUSICAL GRAND REHEARSAL
FACING HISTORY. RADU TUCULESCU`S MUSICAL GRAND REHEARSAL
Author(s): Dana SalaSubject(s): Politics, Language and Literature Studies, Music, Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: music in literature; novel as an art form; politics; aesthetics vs. moral; arts under totalitarianism; storytelling;
Summary/Abstract: The novel „Femeile insomniacului” (”The Insomniac's Women”) by Radu Tuculescu interweaves contrapuntally two basic themes against a background of vital rhythms, erotic quests, culinary incentives, jazz and luxuriant sensoriality. They are the ethos created for and modelled by the main character, the insomniac. The novel is interwoven from two aspects: the unravelling of life with its inherent illusions in counterpoint to the gravity of death. Radu Ţuculescu is a writer who can be both sincere and versatile, cynical and naive. He has the power to keep himself in perfect equivocity. Paradox becomes a caveat of the text. The fragile essence of human ambiguity is always well expressed in Tuculescu's writing. It is never flattened into one-dimensional thinking.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Oradea Fascicula Limba si Literatura Română (ALLRO)
- Issue Year: 28/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 229-243
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
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