Memoria recentă: sfârșitul și începutul istoriei

Starting from several post-1989 novels (The Heaven of the Hens by Dan Lungu, The Bride and Groom of Immortality by Radu Aldulescu, Coming from an Off-Key Time by Bogdan Suceavă), the study aims to analyze the metamorphoses of history in post-communism’s literary memory. From the satire of conspiracies and bigotry, to the radiography of the marginalized and the miserable world, to the humorous peddling, the three texts depict a return to the story and narrative – which at the same time involves the need for legitimizing practices of identity in post-1989 period. Assumed with playfulness or distortion, the novels offer chronicles of the times that cannot evoke freedom: the intertwining of the “real” shows the societal stereotypes that are still perpetuated in the “everyday of memory”.