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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2003  
         
  Article:   A CASE OF MODERNITY: JULIAN BARNES’S FLAUBERT.

Authors:  SANDA BERCE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The paper is an inquiry into the new modes of writing inaugurated by such novels as “Flaubert’s Parrot” by Julian Barnes. The research is founded on the assumption that in contemporary literature, with the re-writing of old literary genres, a new form of literature emerged. It is literature of imitation - with critical distance -, a literature of parody and irony. Authors chose to imitate the style or the genre by transforming an original text while making sure that the reader can identify the original. Therefore, the paper also focuses on the new modes of reading generated by this type of literature which is defined as literature of re-visitation, based on an informal piece of novel-biography, neither a biography in the traditional sense of the word, or the life story of a character (other than the French writer Flaubert, or a test that the reader has to pass. It is a remarkable piece of literature that includes all while excluding all, probing and questioning the relation authorship - writership and readership as an overt expression of subjectivity in the contemporary world.  
         
     
         
         
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