FICTIONAL ASPECTS OF THE BUILDINGS OF BUCHAREST
FICTIONAL ASPECTS OF THE BUILDINGS OF BUCHAREST

Summary/Abstract: Fictional dwellings are a second protective skin for the characters of a novel and are reluctant to intruders. The central home of the heroes plays a pivotal part. Home is a kind of guardian and stands up for recurring scenes: childhood homes, homes under threat, lost or regained homes, coveted ones, trophy houses etc. Bucharest contains a discreet vastness of such homes that have housed characters and literary intrigues. The present contribution highlights the possibility to read the Dictionary of Literary Places in Bucharest (by Corina Ciocârlie and Andreea Răsuceanu) as a novel with intertextual aspects. The confessions are partial in order to determine the reader to find out more information, to discover other perspectives or to reread favorite novels through the optics of another author. Literary geography and archeology form an enquiry in literary structure created through a combination of experience, documentation, knowledge and imagination. The meticulous literary map of the capital contains chapters with an intelligent amplitude and an ending in which the stylistics of reluctance unites literary approaches and epochs.

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