Din (pre)istoria alternativă a romanului grafic autohton. Ilustrațiile romanelor haiducești ca suport al imaginarului literar
From the Alternative (Pre)history of the Local Graphic Novel. Illustrations of the Hajduk Novels as a Support of the Literary Imaginary

Summary/Abstract: The portraits of the noble robbers and images of their bravery have a double role: on the one hand, they break the linearity of the discourse and intensify the suspense, and on the other hand, they give concreteness to the carefully constructed fleeting image of the literary text. The very practice of publishing works of fiction accompanied by graphic representations of significant scenes underpins the rise of the novel. Western literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took full advantage of the commercial success of graphic inserts, and Romanian literature adopted this technique to streamline the circulation of the novel's message. In addition to its specific role as an entertaining element, we cannot deny the fundamental role of illustration as a semiotic instrument. In the hajduk novel, the illustration mediates the crystallization of the noble outlaw image because it compresses essential biographical information and offers a translation of his personality. The graphic elements direct the novel's content to a specific audience with an appetite for particular ideological messages. The portraits of the main characters, captured in edifying poses for the development of their identity as symbols of social resistance, are likely to influence the entire literary system configured by the subgenre, imposing their associative and analogical force.

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