| Title: | Das Banat als Topos in den Texten Cătălin Dorian Florescus |
| Author: | Grazziella Predoiu |
| Publication: | Temeswarer Beiträge zur Germanistik, 7, p. 167 |
| p-ISSN: | 1453-7621 |
| Publisher: | Mirton Verlag |
| Place: | Temeswar |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | The article focuses on Cătălin Dorian Florescu’s novels, Wunderzeit and Der blinde Masseur, in which the autobiographic emigration experience is the dominant issue. It takes the form of an organized escape to the West, in his first novel Wunderzeit, or – in Der blinde Masseur – of a post-communist Romania description, from the point of view of a person with an emigration background. In the novel Wunderzeit, the story takes place in Banat, in the city of Timişoara, during Ceauşescu’s dictatorship. In my paper, the traumas caused by the dictatorship are analysed, based on specific examples, such as the contraction of inner and outer lebensraum, the shortage of foods, the permanent surveillance. The masculine self-orchestration completes the position of an emigrant in the novel, Der blinde Masseur. The narrator’s view detects in the post-communist everyday life aspects of destruction and decadence, which reveals the terror of a non-idyll. The book unfolds the urban claustrophobia and a non-renewing way of a life, which rather self-replicates in misery. By using the same means, life is trapped in hopelessness, as it was during the dictatorship. The historical scenario after the turn resembles to the communist Romania. |
| Key words: | German literature from Romania, Banat, dictatorship, travel, Timişoara |
| Language: | German |
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