ON RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN PARODIC DISCOURSES
ON RECONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN PARODIC DISCOURSES

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at illustrating the ways in which identities may be shaped in parodic discourses that resort to metafictional devices. Mircea Horia Simionescu’s „Nesfârșitele primejdii”(The Endless Perils)‒ a marker of the earliest Romanian postmodernism ‒on one hand and „Rubik”, a collective novel which relaunched the experiment in the Romanian literary space, on the other hand, are two metafictional examples in which the quest for identity is unfolding mainly on two continously overlapping levels: that of characters’ and of the texts’ unravelling themselves. Simionescu's metanovel becomes a game with the reader, dismantling through parody the type of literature oversaturated with conventions, whilst Simona Popescu's book club novel unfolds self-parody as the the other unknown side of the eternal ”ideal reader”.

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