Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies (May 2022)

Imaginarul rețelelor de socializare și poetica distanțării în romanul Interior Zero de Lavinia Braniște

  • Cristina Hermeziu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v5i1.23884
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 85 – 96

Abstract

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After 2004, the year when Facebook was created, the issue of social networks as increasingly widespread and generalized ways of communication and relationship in society also invested in the field of literature, becoming an ingredient of the literary diegesis. To the extent that the writers of the so-called digital generation, respectively the one born and formed directly in the society of communication technologies, can no longer ignore the presence of social networks in the daily lives of created characters, what kind of imaginary literature does this create? Our analysis focuses on how the narrative voice in Lavinia Braniște's novels establishes a meta-critical relationship with social networks, especially in the universe of the first novel, Interior Zero, published in 2016. We are interested in finding out to what extent, in the age of millennials and the virtualization of existence, literature is a subtle form of ontological resistance through catharsis.

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