ABSURD, IRONIE, INTERTEXTUALITATE, PROFEȚII ȘI JUSTIFICĂRI PREISTORICE ÎN PROZA LUI ȘTEFAN BĂNULESCU

Abstract

A Byzantine-Balkan imagery is to be found in Ștefan Bănulescu´s literary works (novels and short stories). The substance of the mythological imagery in the short stories is transformed in the novel “The Book of Metopolis” into a formula that is essentialized and reduced as spectacle in favor of narrative artifice. However, the specifics of the Bănulescian imaginary generally retain the characteristic coordinates: archetype, myth, legend, deconstruction, and pronounced symbolism in conjunction with an almost synesthetic “sensorium”. The imaginary generates an arborescent narrative with multiple echoes. One could speak in this case of a lavish imaginary strongly linked to the memory of traditions and legends.