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MINIMALISM ȘI SUBVERSIUNE RETORICĂ ÎN PROZA SCURTĂ A ANILOR '80
MINIMALISM AND RHETORICAL SUBVERSION IN THE '80s SHORT STORIES

Author(s): Cristian-Petru Vieru
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: minimalism; reductionist notations; power of meaning; poor vocabulary; post-war literature;

Summary/Abstract: In the 80s, the alienation of the individual under the pressure of the totalitarian regime takes the form of magical realism - DR Popescu, Blandiana- with excess meaning in the form of parables, slipping into the fantastic, sending to multiple levels of reading, as well as that of non-conceptualizing, empiricist minimalist poetry and prose, with simple syntactic structures. A deliberate impoverishment of vision and language is promoted, the minimalist author relying on the power of meaning of the chosen word. Under the pretext of describing the commonplace, the drastic reduction of stylistic means and the poor vocabulary betray the creator's intention to suggest a world emptied of meaning, of values, a world that no longer pursues major goals, but only the imposition of subjective hierarchies of the discretionary regime. Common to these two opposing poetics is the politics of aversion to dogmatism and the totalitarian regime.

  • Issue Year: 23/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 164-170
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian