TY  - JOUR
A1  - Predoiu, Grazziella
T1  - Herta Müller – Mircea Cãrtãrescu: ein Annäherungsversuch
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - The article focuses on Herta Müller and Mircea Cãrtãrescu, two authors from the same generation, who in their respective novels Herztier and Orbitor gave different accounts on the situation in Romania during the 70s, the 80s, of the terror during the Ceaușescu-dictatorship, and on the December revolution. Multiple factors allow a parallelized and comparative description of these two novels: biographical and work-immanently factors. A similarly described world, marked by Kafkaesque elements – Romania amid the dictatorship of Ceauºescu, as well as similarly handling elements of oppression, fear, humiliation, forms of survival, description of the totalitarian state representatives, accurate highlights of the December revolution connect the two autobiographical novels. While the reader can sense in Müllers book the fear and the terror very deeply, as the death and the emigration are solely alternatives for the protagonists, Cãrtãrescu’s universe has signs of grotesqueness and ridiculousness. Cãrtãrescu doesn’t accentuate the terror, the hopelessness, the fear, but mocks the reality, and he laughs at Ceausescu’s stupidity. The author satisfies his desire of revenge for his stolen youth in the communist period.
KW  - Romania under the dictatorship of Ceaușescu
KW  - autobiographical novels
KW  - fear and hopelessness
KW  - humiliation
KW  - actor and victim, forms of survival
KW  - Decemberrevolution
KW  - Satire and grotesqueness
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65392
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-653924
UR  - https://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/28.1.5.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 28
SP  - 68
EP  - 84
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -