Barocul Ţiganiadei
The Baroque of Ţiganiada

Summary/Abstract: In the present study we set to prove with new arguments that Țiganiada (1812), Ion Budai-Deleanu’s masterpiece, belongs to the European Baroque themes and structures. In this regard I analyzed the structures of duality and multipolarity; those of hypertextuality (in the meaning assigned by G. Gennette), as a triumph of factitious over the nature; those of rhetoric ostentation; the themes of the „world upside down”, of illusion and self-deception. From this point of view, the author’s Enlightenment ideas – which focused so far literary historians’ attention – are nothing but the surface coating of a deeply deluding Baroque work.

• Details
• Contents