METAFICTION AND SELF-REFERENTIALITY IN THE NOVEL "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE GATES OF THE EAST"
METAFICTION AND SELF-REFERENTIALITY IN THE NOVEL "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE GATES OF THE EAST"

Summary/Abstract: Mirroring the condition of the generation living in the 80s, Ioan Groşan writes a novel in which the action is set in an ambiguous space, deeply rooted in two different mindsets and in two different literary paradigms: on the one hand, the tradition of the historical novel - with all its rhetoric - on the other hand, the increasingly noticeable signs of a new, postmodern poetics. Taking advantage of all the postmodernist strategies, shifting from intertextuality to parody and from self-referentiality to metafictional, the novel deconstructs and reconstructs a discourse that seemed to have exhausted its resources. Thus, One hundred years for the East Gates becomes a humorous metanovel which tells its own story.

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