Tema scriiturii în ,,Ruletistul” de Mircea Cărtărescu
The Theme of Writing in ,,Ruletistul” (the Roulette player) by Mircea Cărtărescu

Summary/Abstract: The first censored edition of ,,Nostalgia” was entitled ,,Visul” (The Dream) and appeared in 1989, at Cartea Romaneasca Publishing House, Bucharest. The second full edition Nostalgia, completed by a Prologue – Ruletistul (The Roulette Gambler) appeared in 1993, Humanitas, Bucharest. However, the first edition previous to the Romanian one appeared in French, 1992, under the title Le Rêve (Éditions Climats), being nominated for Medicis Prize and Award for the best foreign book of 1992. As the very title ,,Nostalgia” suggests, the book subtitled „novel” by the author, although is more like a volume of five short stories, it acquires unity by the common idea of all texts – nostalgia for the absolute. As Eugen Simion stated, it is prose „joining biographism with metaphysical, fantastic and fantasy psychoanalysis.” (E. Simion, ,,Scriitori romani de azi”, IV , Bucharest, Cartea Romaneasca, 1989, p. 477). From the first story, ,,Ruletistul (The Roulette Gambler)”, a form of knowledge of the absolute becomes literature. Theory infused with the reality of the work conveys the postmodern writer’s conception of literature. In terms of postmodern aesthetics, Mircea Cărtărescu introduces in his prose reflections on the act of writing, the condition of the creator to the text and the relationships within the text. The postmodern author who feels more acutely the need to justify and present his work, does no longer proceed as his predecessors who appealed to different preambles, but introduces what pragmatics calls „the part of negotiating text” in a harmonious combination of irony, skill and spirit game. Within the pages of the Ruletist (The Roulette Gambler), literature / fiction is defined as another possible reality, „a world where the impossible is possible” (M. Cărtărescu, Nostalgia, Tenth Edition, Bucharest, Humanitas, 2013, p. 31), a world animated both by the act of the story and that of reading, „for the characters never die, they live wherever their world is «read»" (Ibidem). (our translation)

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