THE APPLAUSE DRAWER - A MIRROR OF A WORLD ON THE BACK
THE APPLAUSE DRAWER - A MIRROR OF A WORLD ON THE BACK
Author(s): Maria-Andreea Rașoveanu (Pădurean)Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Foreign languages learning, Semiotics / Semiology, Fiction, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Novel, Semantics, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature, Stylistics, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: literature of drawer; post-war literature; metanovel; postmodern narrative techniques; totalitarianism;
Summary/Abstract: Written in the last years of communism, without hope of being published, the novel The Applause drawer by Ana Blandiana reveals in a polyphonic writing an existential universe in which control and terror dominate. The aim of the article is to emphasize both the unique epic construction, as in a palimpsest, and the symbolic implications of the text. The epic discourse constructed from different authorial perspectives offers both notes of grotesque reportage that provide the image of real, lived communism, and notes of denunciation specific to that period.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 40
- Page Range: 533-537
- Page Count: 5
- Language: Romanian
