Scientia Publishing House – Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

This course is addressed to 3rd year students of the Faculty of Business and Humanities, Miercurea-Ciuc, specialized in Romanian Language and Literature – English Language and Literature. Its aim is to fill an information gap within the course on the post-war period of The History of Romanian Literature. Within the literature, after the Second World War, attention turns mainly towards prose and poetry, the dramatic art receiving less interest. In order to address this deficiency, we propose to debate the multivalence of the theatre of the 60s, 70s, and 80s through the perspective of irony, the fundamental aesthetic category of the age, in the works of Marin Sorescu, Iosif Naghiu, Romulus Guga, D. R. Popescu, Paul Everac, Th. Mănescu, and Th. Mazilu. We dedicate special attention to the analysis of parody as a covert means of subversion in a literature which unveils the horrors of a totalitarian-communist era. On the other hand, we have included dramatic texts with explicit political message, inspired by Brecht (Th. Mănescu), as an alternative to the parabolic problem plays. The common denominator of these plays is that they represent a strong expressionistic trend (Marin Sorescu, Romulus Guga, Iosif
Naghiu, and D. R. Popescu).

The appendix of the course contains a series of fragments from the studied dramatic texts in order to enhance work on seminars dedicated to The History of Romanian Literature.