Matei Vișniec – „Omul din care a fost extras răul”, o fabulă filosofică într-o ficțiune jurnalistică [Matei Vișniec – “The evil-free man”, a philosophical fable in a journalistic fiction]

Abstract

Matei Visniec, an internationally recognized author, mainly known as a dramatist, is particularly concerned with integrating existential questions in his creation. The play Omul din care a fost extras răul (The Evil-Free Man) makes no exception. Its author sees it as a philosophical fable and a journalistic fiction. The philosophical fable and the journalistic fiction are indeed in such a broad connection that their splitting apart would totally change the message. Thus, the fable exploits the rat metaphor: with the degrading impact the consumerist society has on humanity, the only salvation would consist in the intervention of rats empowered with the authority to eliminate both ecological and metaphysical damages. Through its main character and through the evolution of social and political events, the journalistic fiction underlines the impact every invented story of the mass media may have on a brainwashed population whose choice cannot go from living to existing. My intention is to underline these main aspects and the possible message.

Keywords

• matei visniec
• philosophical fable
• journalistic fiction
• consumerist society
• rats
• evil
• metaphysics
• living and existing