BULGAKOV ÎN DIALOG CU VONNEGUT. DEMONTAREA POSTMODERNISTĂ A CONVENŢIILOR ROMANEŞTI
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN BULGAKOV AND VONNEGUT. THE POSTMODERNIST DISMANTLING OF THE NOVELISTIC CONVENTIONS

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze two novels illustrating the emergence of the postmodernism in the sixth decade of the past century, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, written and published in distinct cultural areas. Concerning the novelistic devices, the postmodernism promotes an anti-mimetic poetics, pluralism and fragmentation, by cultivating the internal incoherence, nonlinear narration, stylistic eclecticism associated with an ironic-parodic and demystifying attitude. Notwithstanding the thematic and structural differences, these two novels are following the main features of postmodernism, ultimately anti-imitative, self-referential and deconstructive, revealing the character of an open work.

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