Speculative fictions – dystopian visions for Cristian Tudor Popescu's journalistic discourse
Speculative fictions – dystopian visions for Cristian Tudor Popescu's journalistic discourse

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show how the transition from journalism to fictional discourse is made, with the inherent specific fingerprint. Cristian Tudor Popescu's collection of science-fiction stories, which preceded his work as a journalist, reflects universes described by unexpected associations where prevails the continuing struggle for supremacy between man and machine and the awareness of possible cohabitation in a future usually very distant while everything is subject to deformation when exploring the imaginary. These worlds dissolution, running on inverted truths waiting to be put in order, give dystopian literary meanings to the discourse, that is to be found later in the journalistic one. Thus, the specificity of science fiction is transferred to journalism, the journalist Cristian Tudor Popescu borrowing the means of the writer Cristian Tudor Popescu in order to reflect reality, and the perpetual struggle against the current which is highlighted in editorial volumes. Here there are to be found the themes that have dominated public debate of the last few decades, showing that his journalistic writing acquire literary valences after being taken out of historical context which were reported at the time of writing, the discourse being fictionalized.

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