TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES: DRAGOMÁN GYÖRGY, BODOR ÁDÁM AND HERTA MÜLLER

This study aims to compare depictions of dictatorship in the texts of several authors belonging to areas of cultural interference (German-Romanian, Hungarian-Romanian). Dragomán György (The White King), Bodor Ádám (The Archbishop's Visit) and Herta Müller (Even Then, the Fox Was the Hunter) do not write in Romanian, but their narratives are connected to the Central-East European totalitarian systems, having sometimes direct references to the Romanian communism. Regardless of the narrative perspective, these texts are focused on the aggressiveness of power, on alienation, and the ideological mechanisms that keep the individual captive.