ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN SORIN TITEL’S PROSE. “THE BANAT TETRALOGY” AND THE FACES OF MARGINALITY
ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN SORIN TITEL’S PROSE. “THE BANAT TETRALOGY” AND THE FACES OF MARGINALITY

Summary/Abstract: Although in many instances Sorin Titel is still regarded as a marginal prose writer of post-war Romanian literature, he is one of the most innovative authors of the period, connected to the new literary tendencies, especially to the French New Wave. In the “Banat tetralogy”, the writer moves away from absurd and Oneirism to a more realistic premises, reconstructing a world in which all the faces of marginality can be found – from gypsies to mixed families or Germans deported after the Second World War. Sorin Titel transposes thus the ethnic variety of Banat recording all their dramas and personal histories through which this space exists. Starting from Pascale Casanova’s theories regarding the distinction between national and international writers, as well as from Jacques Rancière’s conception on ideology, this paper focuses on how Sorin Titel’s novels construct an ideological and democratic discourse, and especially on how his characters recreate the History through their personal experiences, meaning through peripherical views that cause the questioning of some racial preconceptions.

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