ASPECTS DE L’IRONIE DANS LE ROMAN ,,ÎNTÂLNIREA” DE GABRIELA ADAMEŞTEANU
ASPECTS OF IRONY IN THE NOVEL ÎNTÂLNIREA ”BY GABRIELA ADAMEŞTEANU

Summary/Abstract: The novel "Întâlnirea" by Gabriela Adameşteanu, in the 5th edition, 2013, emphasizes the theme of exile, which she assumes and makes reference to from the beginning, through the variant of intertextuality, a motto by Mircea Eliade, which begins with: "Every expatriate is a Ulysses on the way to Ithaca ... The way to Ithaca is the way to the Center." The novel actually follows the spiritual adventure of Traian Manu, the protagonist, his search for the “Center”, with memories, wishes, hopes and fears. The novel "Întâlnirea" develops a bitter irony on several levels. It is the irony especially created through the individual’s surprise in front of history; it is a situational irony born from the opposition between a desired situation and the existing reality. Starting from these premises, the present work aims to follow and illustrate the way in which bitter irony manifests itself in the construction of the communist imaginary in Gabriela Adameşteanu’s novel.

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