Rez 1 - Doctorate ULBS - "Lucian Blaga" din Sibiu

view to decoding the meaning. The indicators Rimmon-Kenan brings forward aredivided into “direct definitions” and “indirect presentations”. The former categoryrefers to the most obvious technique of characterization: the direct mention of thecharacter’s feature by the narrator, by another character or by the character himself/herself (self-characterization). Among those indicators which do not mention thefeature, but expose or exemplify it indirectly, letting the reader make the connectionwith a particular feature, Rimmon-Kenan refers to: actions, speech, appearance andenvironment. To these categories the researcher adds analogy, which she does notconsider as a separate indicator of characterization, but a way to strengthen it, able tofoster the character’s features both through similitude and contrast, implicitly orexplicitly.The reader’s task is to detect these indicators, to see which type ofcharacterization prevails in a text or for a particular character, so as to subsequentlyestablish connections between these findings and the character involved, the theme ofthe literary work and the traits of the literary period it belongs to.In the first subchapter dedicated to analysing characters in Alexandru Ivasiuc’sprose fiction, The public image: a bunch of winners, we have emphasized the fact thatthe writer makes the characters’ portrayal by means of socium. Thus he depictscharacters boasting a significant social success; the characters are intellectuals, notpeople from the proletarian layer, the favourite environment of the realist/socialistfiction, still strongly valorized by the Party ideology at the time when Ivasiuc’s workswere published. With just few exceptions, the main characters are also representativesof the social elite, with a well established reputation and position. Thus, dr. Ilea fromVestibul is a neurologist of repute, specialized in morphology, but also a universityprofessor, Ilie Chindriş, the main character in Interval is a historian and universitylecturer, Ion Marina from Cunoaştere de noapte is “an important magistrate in a keyministry”, Dumitru Vinea from Păsările is the general manager of the plant in a townfrom Transylvania, Paul Achim from Iluminări is a researcher, just like Ilea, alsobeing a member of the Academy and a deputy, holding the most important managingposition in a Research Institute, Paul Dunca is an appreciated lawyer in his nativetown from Northern Transylvania, Miguel from Racul is the personal assistant of themighty governor of a state in Latin America.Prosopography, sometimes extensively used in the text, completes thecharacters’ portrayal. But none of the characters are given a complete physical21