IDENTITATEA ORAŞULUI COMUNIST – DE LA UTOPIE LA DISTOPIE ÎN ROMANUL LUI MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU
The identity of the communist city - from utopia to distopy in Mircea Cărtărescu’s novel

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to analyze the portrait of Bucharest, a communist city, which reveals the identity of the new man created by a totalitarian system. Considered as an extension of the maternal archetype, Bucharest reflects, in particular, the mischievous sense of the archetype: the mother who awakens fear. A critical and objective eye records in detail the changes made by the mother town, describing the predominant slumber landscape, the ugly, the dirt and the ruins in which the inhabitants complain. The image of the city could be regarded as a devouring mother who wants to mutilate her infants by cramming them into insidious homes, as in a prison. The mother-city turned into the abyss that seduced, then swallowed the destinies of its inhabitants.

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