The imaginary of the social networks and the poetics of detachment in Interior Zero, a novel by Lavinia Braniște Cover Image

Imaginarul rețelelor de socializare și poetica distanțării în romanul Interior Zero de Lavinia Braniște
The imaginary of the social networks and the poetics of detachment in Interior Zero, a novel by Lavinia Braniște

Author(s): Cristina Hermeziu
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds Universitet
Keywords: poetics; social media; personal relations; millennials; Braniște;

Summary/Abstract: After 2004, the year when Facebook was created, the issue of social networks as increasingly widespread and generalized ways of communication and relationship in society also invested in the field of literature, becoming an ingredient of the literary diegesis. To the extent that the writers of the so-called digital generation, respectively the one born and formed directly in the society of communication technologies, can no longer ignore the presence of social networks in the daily lives of created characters, what kind of imaginary literature does this create? Our analysis focuses on how the narrative voice in Lavinia Braniște's novels establishes a meta-critical relationship with social networks, especially in the universe of the first novel, Interior Zero, published in 2016. We are interested in finding out to what extent, in the age of millennials and the virtualization of existence, literature is a subtle form of ontological resistance through catharsis.

  • Issue Year: 5/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 85-96
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian