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

tendency, of conscious origin, which defensively blocks emotional impulses. Thesensation at the end of the novels is that of a purely exterior balance, the readerinferring that characters will keep living, consciously or not, a fight between the innerand the outer voices, or in Jaspers’s terms, between the centripetal force given by theimpulse to stay prisoner of a familiar world and the centrifugal one of flying towardsnew horizons.The subchapter Communist heroes à rebours clearly points out those elementsconnected to characters that might have had a subversive potential in the 1960-1970.We have considered that the greatest advantages Ivasiuc’s work presents for revealingthese elements and the abstract author’s ideology was that, by gathering data whichpresent similarities in point of the characters’ inner structure and of the narrativeprogress, an intertextual analogy is created, a semantic network highlightingcharacters. In our opinion, the author’s attributing characters analogous featurescannot be neutral from the semantic point of view, as it emphasizes their features alsocontributing to their exponentiality for the society they belonged to.The author chooses to present only one fragment from the characters’ life, thatcovering the period from realizing their weak balance to the revelation of their deepgenuine structure and the moment they have to decide their future. From thisperspective the solutions chosen are quasi-identical. Of particular relevance within thesame intertextuality are the connections established by way of contrast, nor only byintroducing foil characters 28 , but especially by opposing, at the level of the entirework, constitutional structures or attitudes, which strengthens the differences betweencharacters. Thus, the author polarizes the sympathy of the readers, who project imageson the real framework of reference, valorizing those characters they perceive asauthentic and as bringing forth truth naturalness. One can suppose that readers, havinghad enough of the clichés of realist socialist fiction sympathised with those charactersthat lived a different life than that of “heroes”, characters who are not correctlyemployed or do not accept the traditional family principles, thus belonging tosomehow liminal areas. This is the case of Liviu Dunca, Margareta Vinea, Olga orŞtefania (Păsările).28 Stefanie Lethbridge, Jarmila Mildorf, Basics of English Studies: An introductory course for studentsof literary studies in English, Developed at the English departments of the Universities of Tübingen,Stuttgart and Freiburg, p. 53;25