Televiziunea ca mediu virtual în proza lui Andrei Codrescu
Television as a virtual environment in the prose of Andrei Codrescu

Summary/Abstract: The present article is part of a larger study related to virtuality in relation with Andrei Codrescu’s prose. We depict the characteristics of the television as virtual space and the manner Andrei Codrescu’s novel Messiah reflects the artificial reality represented by the TV shows. We present how televangelism may operate as a factor of disturbance for the day-to-day reality, replacing it gradually with a false reality. We also discuss how a live TV show may mesmerize the viewers, transporting them virtually in another space, but in real time. Television offers to its viewers a triple pact and uses tempting methods that are capable to extract the spectator from his own life. All these aspects we meet in theory are to be met in Codrescu’s prose and lived by the literary characters, inside an imagery inspired by reality.

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