Death and irony in Marin Sorescu’s work
Death and irony in Marin Sorescu’s work

Summary/Abstract: Marin Sorescu was one of the most famous Romanian writers known abroad. His works were translated into more than 20 countries, and the total number of his books that were published abroad rises up to 60 books. Irony is the key of all his poety, as the author himself recognized. On his poetry, Sorescu said, with characteristic irony: "Just as I can't give up smoking because I don't smoke, I can't give up writing because I have no talent". His specific irony was also used in poems dealing with death. Death is a topic that most of us avoid it, and from those who approach it, Marin Sorescu approached this theme in a completely different way. In Marin Sorescu's work death is banalized, caricatured, outlining a strong sense of absurdity. His irony has made it possible to publish freely and frequently and this is the reason he has remained one of the most important neomodernist writers.

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