Historicité fictionnelle et (hyper)signification culturelle dans les périphéries orientales de l’Europe
Fictional Historicity and Cultural (Hyper)signification at the Eastern Peripheries of Europe

Summary/Abstract: In interwar Romania a severe syndrome of cultural marginality conspicuously developed into a series of particular creative strategies and interpretive techniques. Among them we might notice the semantic overload of cultural and ideological programs such as Modernism, devised by the Romanian elites in their endeavor to keep the pace with the dynamics of the European cultural history. The starting point of our enquiry is Liviu Rebreanu, a forefather of the Romanian novel. In some of his books our study seeks to unravel distinct significant levels and potential interpretive points of view, partially entangled and partially conflicting. On the first one, Real History is at stake in some of its critical aspects: the issue of the Romanian rural economy struggling to overcome the feudal paradigms of property, the Great War and its tragic ethnic outcomes at the border between the Romanian kingdom and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The critical reception of his novels had however adamantly overrated a second significant level that/which allowed bestowing upon Rebreanu the stand of a signpost in the History of Romanian cultural modernization. Consequently the interpretive juggle with Rebreanu in the scenario of the Romanian cultural Modernism turns out to be more insightful than the inner interplay between Story and History in the fictional universe of his books.

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