VARIATIONS OF ROMANTIC IRONY IN THE WRITINGS OF THE MOLDOVAN FORTY-EIGHTERS
VARIATIONS OF ROMANTIC IRONY IN THE WRITINGS OF THE MOLDOVAN FORTY-EIGHTERS

Summary/Abstract: Used mainly as a discursive strategy with the function of sanctioning and correcting the sharp contrasts and cultural inconsistencies, in an era of transition from East to West irony takes, in literary and journalistic discourse, various forms according to both the interrogated register - the salon, with all the French labels, the colourful bustle of the capital Iași with the wide oriental costumes and the European clothing patterns, rigid and tight – and the formative course, life experience and inner structure of each author. This paper proposes an investigation of the discursive nuances of elitist irony in the prose of the Forty-Eighters and in their entire approach to depicting their national identity as a space between two distinct mental boundaries. If Vasile Alecsandri practices a gentle type of irony corresponding to his endearing nature, Mihail Kogălniceanu adopts a pungent speech as a fine observer of his contemporary society. Equally uncompromising, Alecu Russo adopts, however, like Costache Negruzzi, a writing infused with rather self-ironic and reflective notes.

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