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Subalternativul<br />

(politica-film)<br />

Bogdan Ghiu<br />

„Funcflia fabulatorie a særacilor“<br />

Cine îøi imagineazæ cæ Nicolae Ceauøescu s-ar fi simflit flatat sau ar fi fost, cel puflin,<br />

mulflumit de filmul lui Ujicæ, recunoscîndu-se în el, se înøalæ. Auto-biografie, doar<br />

atît? Auto-istorie, poate!<br />

Deøi ar trebui sæ devinæ clar, cel puflin cu ocazia acestei opere care e Autobiografia<br />

lui Nicolae Ceauøescu, cæ accesul public la auto-biografie înseamnæ, deja, istorie, øi<br />

cæ istoria, în general, nu este decît, tocmai, autobiografie publicæ, generalæ, colectivæ:<br />

a te vedea pe tine însufli în „oglinda istoriei“, a imprima istoriei propriul tæu chip.<br />

Dar oare nu tocmai asta înseamnæ „a face istorie“?<br />

În România, aceastæ ironie øi ambiguitate de fond, neconstruitæ, neadæugatæ, ci descoperitæ<br />

øi reactivatæ artistic de cætre Ujicæ în regim ready-media, aceea a situafliei autobiografice<br />

a istoriei, i-a pierdut pe cei mai mulfli comentatori, care au recæzut<br />

involuntar într-un fel de exegezæ „esopicæ“, indirect, evitat politicæ, de tipul ce<strong>lei</strong> ce<br />

caracteriza în general – culmea, ironie a ironiei! – tocmai producflia literaræ øi comentariul<br />

literar de la apogeul ceauøismului, în anii ’80, cînd politicæ nu se putea face direct,<br />

pe faflæ, dar tocmai de aceea politica (adicæ Partidul, pro sau contra) „era în toate“.<br />

Filmul lui Ujicæ îøi captiveazæ, altfel spus, la propriu, privitorii: îi face øi îi fline captivi.<br />

Tocmai de aceea, a fost „citit“ preponderent literar (dovedind poate, dacæ mai era<br />

nevoie, cæ succesul filmului românesc, în general, este un succes al literaturii „continuate<br />

cu alte mijloace“, succesul unei arte literare, nu, încæ, al unei arte vizuale).<br />

Ceauøiøti, mæcar, cu toflii, dacæ nu „ceauøeøti“, dupæ acest film plæcut de væzut, greu<br />

de recunoscut: nu fabulæm oare cu toflii, nu „deliræm mondial“ cu toflii, dînd frîu liber<br />

„funcfliei fabulatorii a særacilor“ (cum spunea Deleuze vorbind tocmai despre virtuflile<br />

ficflional-politice, adicæ alter-politice, ale documentarului), amestecînd istoria cu<br />

biografia, adicæ træind istoria în regimul fantasmatic-narcisic al unei autobiografii generalizate,<br />

universale, cosmice?<br />

Ceea ce se opune ficfliunii nu este realul, nu este adeværul, care este întotdeauna<br />

cel al stæpînilor sau al colonizatorilor, ci funcflia fabulatorie a særacilor, în mæsura<br />

în care aceasta conferæ falsului puterea care face din el o memorie, o legendæ,<br />

un monstru. [...] Este vorba de devenirea personajului real atunci cînd acesta<br />

începe sæ „ficflioneze“, cînd intræ „în flagrant delict de a næscoci legende“ (légender),<br />

contribuind astfel la inventarea propriului sæu popor. [...] Este vorba de<br />

simularea unei povestiri, de o legendæ øi de metamorfozele ei, de discursul indi-<br />

THE SUBALTERNATIVE<br />

(The Film-Politics)<br />

Bogdan Ghiu<br />

scena<br />

“The Story-Telling Function of the Poor“<br />

He/she who figures that Nicolae Ceauøescu would have felt flattered<br />

or would have been, at least, pleased by Ujicæ’s film, recognizing<br />

himself in it, is wrong. Auto-biography, this much? Auto-history,<br />

perhaps!<br />

Though it should become clear, at least on the occasion of this creation<br />

which is The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauøescu, that the public<br />

access to auto-biography already means history, and that history,<br />

in general, is, precisely, but public, general, collective autobiography:<br />

to see yourself in “the mirror of history“, to imprint history on<br />

your own face. But isn’t this precisely what “to make history“ means?<br />

In Romania, this background irony and ambiguity, which is not built<br />

or incidental, but exposed and artistically reactivated by Ujicæ as<br />

ready-media, the irony and ambiguity of the autobiographic condition<br />

of history, has lost most interpreters, who have involuntarily relapsed<br />

into a sort of “Aesopic“ exegesis, indirectly, avoidedly political, similar<br />

to that which used to characterize in general – on the back of that,<br />

irony’s irony! – precisely the literary production and the literary interpretation<br />

from the apogee of Ceauschism, in the 80’s, when politics<br />

could only be made directly, overtly, but precisely because of that the<br />

politics (that is The Party, pro or con.) “was in everything“.<br />

Ujicæ’s film holds, in other words, properly, its viewers spellbound:<br />

it makes them and holds them captive.<br />

Because of that, it has been “read“ prevailingly literary (proving perhaps,<br />

if needed, that the success of the Romanian film, in general, is<br />

a success of the literature “continuing by other means“, the success<br />

of a literary art, not, yet, of a visual art).<br />

Ceauschists, at least, to a man, if not “Ceauøescus“, after this easy to<br />

see, hard to acknowledge film: aren’t we all story-telling, aren’t we<br />

all “wandering globally“, giving the reins to “the story-telling function<br />

of the poor“ (as Deleuze used to say talking precisely about the<br />

fictional-political, that is to say alter-political virtues of the documentary),<br />

confusing history with biography, that is living the history in<br />

the narcissistic-phantasmatic régime of a generalized, universal, cosmic<br />

autobiography?<br />

What is opposed to fiction is not the real; it is not the truth<br />

which is always that of the masters or colonizers; it is the storytelling<br />

function of the poor, in so far as it gives the false the<br />

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