THE (INTER)TEXTS OF THE HISTORY AND THE PARODY OF THE PRESENT

Maria ŞLEAHTIŢCHI Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

Val Butnaru's novel Cartea nomazilor din B. (The Book of the Nomads from B.) brings about a unique narrative concept and novelistic writing in the landscape of the Generation of the 80s. Already an established play writer, the author builds, symbolically and metaphorically, the itinerary of the Bessarabians' movement in history. Placing the action between present and past (the latter being set on several chronological planes), Val Butnaru ties within the novel's representation several narrative models. The most recognizable is the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian writer, Mikhail Bulgakov. Structured on several dramatic cores from the history of the Bessarabians, from a writing point of view, Val Butnaru's novel maintains a dialogue with several referential writings of the genre. The manner of articulating the connections, alternating the narrative planes, the welding of the multiple perspectives of representing the same event, the diversity of the characters, etc. all of the above place The Book of the Nomads from B. in the series of novels built with wrought, and esthetical and social efficiency. Keywords: novel, narrative construction, narrative model, narrative plane, writing, character, metacharacter, postmodernism, eighties.