THE SPECTACLE OF MUSIC AND ILLUSION IN RADU ȚUCULESCU`S FICTION
THE SPECTACLE OF MUSIC AND ILLUSION IN RADU TUCULESCU`S FICTION

Summary/Abstract: A novel by Radu Tuculescu cannot be grasped fully unless the reader imagines the five stave lines of music notations and the corresponding intervening spaces. His highest aspiration is the attainment of a symphony of novel-writing. The raven Dodo in his novel Mierla neagra(The Blackbird) seems to be there for the entertainment of high-school teenage students nicknamed ”the crickets”. The raven imitates voices and it repeats utterances. Later on in the novel, the same bird reveals as a sort of conscience. The raven exposes guilt and vindication. Raven Dodo is the bird of memory in this novel. Through it, the three chapters are placed as different age chapters. Tuculescu believes that his writing should explore the fissures of realness. The world of adolescence moves within the inner rhythms that bear the ethical misery of their epoch. Music is for the adolescents of the novel the perfect antidote. Sometimes the music within this fiction becomes a soteriology.

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