PANTOFI, UMBRELE ȘI ÎNMORMÂNTĂRI – RITUL FUNERAR CA SPECTACOL LA MATEI VIȘNIEC
SHOES, UMBRELLAS AND FUNERALS - THE FUNERAL RITE AS DRAMATIC ART WITH THE AUTHOR MATEI VIȘNIEC

Summary/Abstract: The novel Iubirile de tip pantof, iubirile de tip umbrelă... [Shoe-like Loves, Umbrella-like Loves...] allows the writer Matei Vișniec to play a fictional game with several stakes, some of which of pragmatic intentions – theory and application of fragmentarism, analysis of the self with the aim to find the starting point for the great journey of art (in particular of the dramatic art) and the resort to an identity nucleus (the birth place) turned into a symbol etc. The intentions behind the present text will focus on these premises, as here the author proves to be a mediator of traditional culture/mentality between his country of birth and his country of adoption, France, and, through his fame, to any country the novel would be translated in. The present article analyses the modality in which the funeral rite as is known in the Romanian folklore represents the starting point for Matei Vișniec's dramatic art.

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