Les femmes, la littérature et la société. Tainele inimei, 1850 [Les secrets du coeur] (Mihail Kogălniceanu) dans l’actualité postcommuniste („Tainele inimei” 2005 [Les secrets du coeur] - Cristian Teodorescu)

Résumé

The recuperation of literary tradition may be activated through the already classic canonic
Postmodernist strategies or by using the fictional Realist patterns of the novel. Thus, the textual dialogue focuses on a double perspective: the Postmodern anti-canonic re-writing and the authorial preference for an epoch, writer and his texts. Written by Kogălniceanu, the unfinished novel entitled Tainele inimei (Secrets of the
Heart) is the first to relate to Balzac’s Realism, pointing out its strategies and internal motivation in an overt
attempt to adapt it to the XIXth century Romanian cultural context. In his turn, Cristian Teodorescu prefers the
palimpsest - opening the dialogue with the two hypostases of the Realist verosimility – viewed both as a covert
strategy for re-writing a fictional (anti)model (Kogălniceanu ironically plays with the Realist clichés) and a
personal manner of rebuilding a literary pattern also.