Mistificare şi demistificare în discursul critic postdecembrist: strategii identitare în presa culturală post-totalitară*

Abstract

The aim at creating a coherent identity image of the cultural Romaniannes rooted in the iconic
paradigm mirroring the specificity of the ‘re-born’ post-totalitarian literature, in other words the collective drive
for setting up a valid identity offer functional at the level of inter-national European dynamics, has displayed
different debates on the use of critical strategies and criteria appropriate for this type of endeavour. The interchangeable identities, the displacement of the aesthetic relation humanness – History turning the torturer into the tortured are the main key-points of the ‘east-ethic’ distortion in which the political interplay de-forms the
aesthetic function of the reading act, actually more interested in finding ‘the guilt’ than in analyzing valid
fictional constructs now downplayed by the ‘moralizing’ praxis. In the context of the ‘identity reconstruction’
drive, the ‘post-traumatic memory’ displays double significance: it marks dichotomously either the anachronic
overbidding of the ‘culprit writer’ myth or the selection of the ‘aesthetically resistant’ woks facing the
‘inquisitory’ assault, as the articles publised in România literară Revue during 1996-1997 display.