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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   IL DONCHISCIOTTISMO DI UN POSTROMANTICO / THE DONQUIXOTISM OF A POSTROMANTIC.

Authors:  LAURA PAVEL. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The study The DonQuixotism of a Postromantic focuses on the metatheatrical phenomenon of what I call Ionesco’s „donquixotism”, that has to be seen in close connection with the „postromantic” character of Ionesco’s oeuvre. I critically argue that Eugène Ionesco deserves to be placed in the filiation of the romantic sensibility of E. A. Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann, authors of fictions that can be interpreted as both fantastic and parodic. By the term of „donquixotism” I have codified here, metaphorically, the problem of literary and theatrical representation within the ionescian theatre. The specific theme of the metatheatrical representation comes out of the surprising conviction of Ionesco, expressed on more than one occasion, regarding the irreality of the real. The study deals mostly with the primary role of the representation as related to the represented „fact”, of the Illusion as related to the more and more evanescent referent, to the so-called „real”, now denaturalized.

Keywords: Donquixotism, postromanticism, fictionalisation, representation, fantastic vs absurd, Anti-World 		 
         
     
         
         
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