Intertextualitate și dialogism în Republica lui Bogdan Suceavă

Abstract

Bogdan Suceavă is a contemporary Romanian writer and mathematician, working as a professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton. As a writer, he tackled various epic formulas and he proved to be a keen observer or the Romanian history and politics. The study focuses on the hybrid structure of the novel The Republic by Bogdan Suceavă. This literary reconstruction of an historical event, the ephemeral Republic of Ploiești, is based on literary and historical sources. The Republic is a novel written as a play, combining prose with elements specific to the dramatic genre, such as acts, scenes, stage directions and a list of characters. Thus, the fragmentariness results from the alternation of the narrative with the dramatic dialogue. The novel is intertextual and dialogical, as quotes, situations and characters borrowed from Caragiale's works intermingle with fragments from Candiano-Popescu's memoirs. As a character, Caragiale has a double perspective on the narrated events, as he is both a participant in the revolution and a court stenographer during the trial. Although his source of inspiration is Caragiale's work, Suceavă's irony seems detached and doesn't turn into sarcasm.
Moreover, his irony creates the necessary distance for reflection and analysis.