Contents

Argument 1

1 The Criticism of Ideas on Power

1.1 Theories on Power. From the Social and Philosophical Analysis to the Aporias of Literature 8
1.2 The Literature and its Battles on the Field of Power 26

2 The Active Power of the Subject

2.1 The Fanariot Power in XIXth Century. At the Doorway of Sunrise 58
2.2 The Writer at the Doorway of Sunset 75
2.3 The Old Parvenu at the Doorway of the Novel 82
2.4 Scenes from the Socio-political Life and the Hierarchization of Power 89
2.5 The Physiognomy of the Activist-Arriviste and the Gradual Instruments of Power 100

3 The Reflexive Power of the Subject

3.1 In Search of Power Authenticity 108
3.2 The Power of the Interwar Novelistic Canon 120
3.3 From the Literaturisation of the Autobiographical Trauma to the Reflexive Power 130
3.4 The Cinetic Anamorphosis of the Reflexive Power 146

4 The Passivity of the Subject faced with the Power of History

4.1 The Teratology of Totalitarian Power. The Romanian Case 162
4.2 The Most Beloved Man on Earth and the Passivization of the Subject, Faced with Excessive Power 176

5 The Impersonalization of Power in Contemporary Novel

5.1 The Memory of Power, the Power of Memory and the Narrative Typology of the Postcommunist Novel 198
5.2 The Impersonalization of Power and the Stigma of Historical Memory 226

Conclusions 245

Bibliography 252

Index