Alegorii livrești, reprezentări și funcții ale naratarului- personaj în nuvela Caravana cinematografică de Ioan Groșan

Abstract

According to the latest decades’theories, the reader’s perception brings a significant
contribution to the composition of the literary work. The fiction is born through the interaction
between the world imagined by the writer and the world perceived by the reader. The postmodernist
text includes the reader and exposes the artistic strategies.
In this study, we intend to identify the representations, the construction particularities and the literary
roles of the narratee- character in Ioan Groșan’s short story The cinematographic caravan, as well as
its moral and existential meanings.
The young librarian is the writer’ s fictional alter ego. She transfigures her existential adventure in a
literary discourse which she then receives in a self-referential reading with a mise en abyme function,
which tames the reality and reveals its coherence.
The truck filled with a pile of red books suggests the decay of literature as communist propaganda.
The receivers of these malign texts are inexistent, even though officially reading them was mandatory.
In a totalitarian regime, not only people’s fate is grotesquely distorted, but also that of the written
word.
The village sergeant is another reade, envisaged by the author as a caricature of the receiver. He is
fascinated listening to the stories which Darcleu, Scheherazade’s parodic simulacrum, is compelled to
tell. This episode represents a literary allegory to the power of literature to replace the dystopic
reality. Ioan Groșan’s postmodernist literature assimilates, through this episode, the canon of folk
literature