A FICTIONALIST OF THE 1960s-70s – THE “TOTAL” NOVELIST
A FICTIONALIST OF THE 1960s-70s – THE “TOTAL” NOVELIST

Summary/Abstract: A prisoner of his own phantasms of demiurgical power in the aesthetic realm, and not only, the total writer is the author of a kind of literature that no longer wants to be subdued, but aims to run parallel to or even become emancipated from the ideological discourse of power. Although duplicitous (and complicitous) with “what oppresses” him – if I were to sponge here a phrase from Groys’s ideologically suspicious interpretation, the total novelist from the period of socialist aestheticism cultivated a compensatory bovarism. Whether consciously or not, he rivalled the political decision- makers of the time and their ideological fiction. In relation to previous periods – of the Jdanovist doctrine and socialist realism– the literature of the 1970s fulfilled the authors’ phantasm of power. The nationalism and authoritarian centralism of political will were reflected in the centralism of the will to authorial power, a power that was all-encompassing, totalizing.

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