REVERBERATIONS OF CARAGIALISM IN ANDREI PLEȘU’S ESSAYS (II)
REVERBERATIONS OF CARAGIALISM IN ANDREI PLEȘU’S ESSAYS (II)

Summary/Abstract: In order to continue the effort of systematizing the Caragialian literary legacy, initiated in the book One Century of Caragialism, the present paper aims at adding to the post-Caragialian literary corpus the publicistic essays written by Andrei Pleșu. In his volumes Faces and Masks of Transition (Chipuri și măști ale tranziției), Comédies at the Gates of the Orient (Comèdii la porțile Orientului), The Public Obscenity (Obscenitatea publică), essential components from the paradigm of Caragialism, such as the “grand chatter”, the chaotic discourse, Mitică and the demagogue politician, the irony and the sarcasm - are reactualized and revalued, in a network of clear allusions that allow us to consider Andrei Pleșu a worthy literary descendant of I. L. Caragiale. Besides the discovery of numerous intertextual trades in these volumes, the decisive proof of Andrei Pleșu’s belonging to the Post-Caragialian literary trend, is the observation that some of his essays are deliberate “hypertextual” transformations of various Caragialian “hypotexts”.

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