L’âme vraie d’une marionnette
Presentation of a book by Lucian Dan Teodorescu, translated in french in 2013, this article analyses four aspects of this novel exploring the idea of marionnettism. First, the puppeteer Bruno Matei is shown in his psychological-projective relationship with Vasilache, his puppet. Quickly, Bruno is im...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-07-01
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| Series: | Recherches |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cher/6475 |
| Summary: | Presentation of a book by Lucian Dan Teodorescu, translated in french in 2013, this article analyses four aspects of this novel exploring the idea of marionnettism. First, the puppeteer Bruno Matei is shown in his psychological-projective relationship with Vasilache, his puppet. Quickly, Bruno is imprisoned for his origins (he is half italian, half rumanian) and for his possible professional relation with the wife of the after-war minister of Justice Lucretiu Patrascanu, who had created the first communist puppet theatre Tandarica, in Bucharest. Once in jail, he becomes amnesic. Being changed, he transformes two persons (Bojin and Eliza) into “marionettes” of the system. He himself becomes a human Vasilache under the yoke of Securitate. The article considers that the strategy of the novel is to obtain a “manipulation” of the reader, to understand the story. At last but not least, the writer Lucian Dan Theodorescu has become manipulated by his subject: the condition to modernize his world. This type of fictional approach would be “typical for the fifties.” |
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| ISSN: | 1968-035X 2803-5992 |