Ruxandra Cesereanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4442416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruxandra Cesereanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruxandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Cesereanu |
| SIGNATURE | CESEREANU R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lucreția Jurj
This essay analyzes the destiny of an anti-communist partisan woman in the Romanian mountains (Apuseni, Transylvania). Her name is Lucreția Jurj, and she lived between 1928-2004. Lucreția was a partisan for four years, then captured by the Securitate troops, and politically detained for another ten. After her release from prison, she intentionally forgets her past, which she recovers, however, after the fall of the communist regime, becoming one …
Debates on the Increased Use of AI. Problematizations, Dilemmas, Polemics, Rivalries, Risks
This essay examines and synthesizes a range of international diplomatic and political forums addressing the complexities of communication between humans and artificial intelligences, as well as the broader phenomenon of artificial intercommunication. Its purpose is to assess the prospects, challenges, adaptations, and risks that such interactions entail, highlighting the ways in which the human species may be confronted by – and must respond to –…
Letter to a Friend and Back to the Country
Dystopias and Allegories about Communist Romania
This study outlines a typology of dystopias and narrative allegories about Communist Romania, discussing three famous novels: The Black Church by A. E. Baconsky, The Second Messenger by Bujor Nedelcovici, and Farewell, Europe! by Ion D. Sîrbu. The three novels were prohibited from being published during the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu and became drawer manuscripts, seeing the light of print only after the fall of Communism, in 1990, 199…
Cenotaph and Tumulus – Ethics and Memory. The Micronovel Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano and the Fiction of Herta Müller
"The present study approaches the micro-novel Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano from the perspective of memory (and post-memory) which, through documentary work, restores the identity of the victims definitively annulled by the Nazi regime (victims who have no grave). Our hypothesis is that Modiano is building a literary cenotaph for Dora Bruder. For her part, Herta Müller tries, in at least two of her novels (The Land of Green Plums and The Appoint…
Andrei Codrescu – A Portrait of a Writer in Puzzle
The present portrait dedicated to the writer Andrei Codrescu (the most impactful American author of Romanian origin in postmodern world literature) is one of synthesis, depicting the multi-facetedness of this complex and provocative author, who is continuously innovative, experimental and charming as a poet, prose writer, essayist and thinker
The Savage Detectivism of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction
"The present study analyses Roberto Bolaño’s engagement with marginality in the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666, via the conventions of the noir genre. The aesthetics of the peripheral, the poetics of triviality, vagrancy, bohemian wanderlust, and enigmatic rituals are performed in an inimitable personal style that problematizes issues pertaining to the theory of literature and the theory of the novel. Atomised, puzzle-like novels with deli…
Imaginaire érotique féminin et masculin dans le roman La Pianiste d’Elfriede Jelinek
"In this study, we examine the erotic imagination of women and men in a problematic novel that sparked heated debates at the time of its publication in 1983, debates resumed with more vigor at the time of attribution to its author of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2004 (in the meantime, the book was also transposed to the cinema in 2001 by the director Michael Haneke). This is the novel The Pianist by Elfriede Jelinek. The two imaginaries (femini…
The Armenian Model (The Epic Narrative of Franz Werfel and Armenian Identity)
"This essay analyses the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel through the lens of rediscovering the Armenian identity, both individually and collectively. Does a people have the right, through its political (and religious) leaders, to decide to exterminate another people? This is the acute problem raised by Franz Werfel’s novel, which is simultaneously a political, sociological, psychohistorical, anthropological and ethical novel."
Garden of Paradise. Japanese Identity in Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book
"This text focuses on the identity of the Japanese garden as an accomplished aesthetic act, in the manner depicted in the official diary of Sei Shonagon’s, a lady living at the Japanese imperial court, around the year 1000. Nature is sieved through an aesthetics of concentric circles, in which human life turns into a painstakingly pen crafted page, strictly owing to the perfection of artistic integration in the nature. But Nature, and more specif…
(Non)Human Alterities in Postmodern Novels about Metamorphoses (Will Self and Marie Darrieussecq Follow in the Satirical Footsteps of Apuleius)
This essay examines the idea of otherness as it appears expressed, with all its experimental nuances and singularities, in two postmodern novels authored by Will Self (Cock and Bull) and Marie Darrieussecq (Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation). Following in the footsteps of Apuleius, but also paying heed to the offshoots of the metamorphosis theme in the works of Homer or, more recently, of Franz Kafka and George Orwell, the two authors…
The Atlas of Globalizing Fiction
David Mitchell has written a famous novel about how to make a (geographically fragmented) novel out of fragments: the six life stories included in Cloud Atlas are implicit fictional networks, simultaneously concealed and laid bare. The novel offers ample room for six nested histories and their divergent styles; the result is a strange and rather ostentatious book, shaped like a ziggurat, and providing an almost didactic initiation into matters of…
La biographie de la censure en Roumanie à travers le regard de trois chercheurs
"This study focuses on three authors whose research concerns have centered almost ritualistically on censorship in Romania: Adrian Marino, Liviu Maliţa and Liliana Corobca. While other works and researchers in the field of censorship studies are also mentioned in this essay, these three scholars are remarkable in terms of their consistent, ample research on this topic. Each of them has engaged, in their own particular ways, in outlining a history…
The Final Report on the Holocaust and the Final Report on the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
On 22 October 2003, with the initiative of Romania's president Ion Iliescu, the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (ICSHR) was set up. Nobel laureate for peace and American writer of Romanian origin Elie Wiesel was appointed as its president. In spring 2006, with the initiative of Romania's president Traian Băsescu, the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (CPADCR) was f…
The Bridge
The Final Report on the Holocaust and the Final Report on the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
On 22 October 2003, with the initiative of Romania's president Ion Iliescu, the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (ICSHR) was set up. Nobel laureate for peace and American writer of Romanian origin Elie Wiesel was appointed as its president. In spring 2006, with the initiative of Romania's president Traian Băsescu, the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (CPADCR) was f…
The Bridge
The Final Report on the Holocaust and the Final Report on the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
On 22 October 2003, with the initiative of Romania's president Ion Iliescu, the International Commission for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania (ICSHR) was set up. Nobel laureate for peace and American writer of Romanian origin Elie Wiesel was appointed as its president. In spring 2006, with the initiative of Romania's president Traian Băsescu, the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (CPADCR) was f…
(Non)Human Alterities in Postmodern Novels about Metamorphoses (Will Self and Marie Darrieussecq Follow in the Satirical Footsteps of Apuleius)
This essay examines the idea of otherness as it appears expressed, with all its experimental nuances and singularities, in two postmodern novels authored by Will Self (Cock and Bull) and Marie Darrieussecq (Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation). Following in the footsteps of Apuleius, but also paying heed to the offshoots of the metamorphosis theme in the works of Homer or, more recently, of Franz Kafka and George Orwell, the two authors…
The Atlas of Globalizing Fiction
David Mitchell has written a famous novel about how to make a (geographically fragmented) novel out of fragments: the six life stories included in Cloud Atlas are implicit fictional networks, simultaneously concealed and laid bare. The novel offers ample room for six nested histories and their divergent styles; the result is a strange and rather ostentatious book, shaped like a ziggurat, and providing an almost didactic initiation into matters of…
La biographie de la censure en Roumanie à travers le regard de trois chercheurs
"This study focuses on three authors whose research concerns have centered almost ritualistically on censorship in Romania: Adrian Marino, Liviu Maliţa and Liliana Corobca. While other works and researchers in the field of censorship studies are also mentioned in this essay, these three scholars are remarkable in terms of their consistent, ample research on this topic. Each of them has engaged, in their own particular ways, in outlining a history…
The Armenian Model (The Epic Narrative of Franz Werfel and Armenian Identity)
"This essay analyses the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel through the lens of rediscovering the Armenian identity, both individually and collectively. Does a people have the right, through its political (and religious) leaders, to decide to exterminate another people? This is the acute problem raised by Franz Werfel’s novel, which is simultaneously a political, sociological, psychohistorical, anthropological and ethical novel."
Garden of Paradise. Japanese Identity in Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book
"This text focuses on the identity of the Japanese garden as an accomplished aesthetic act, in the manner depicted in the official diary of Sei Shonagon’s, a lady living at the Japanese imperial court, around the year 1000. Nature is sieved through an aesthetics of concentric circles, in which human life turns into a painstakingly pen crafted page, strictly owing to the perfection of artistic integration in the nature. But Nature, and more specif…
The Savage Detectivism of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction
"The present study analyses Roberto Bolaño’s engagement with marginality in the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666, via the conventions of the noir genre. The aesthetics of the peripheral, the poetics of triviality, vagrancy, bohemian wanderlust, and enigmatic rituals are performed in an inimitable personal style that problematizes issues pertaining to the theory of literature and the theory of the novel. Atomised, puzzle-like novels with deli…
Imaginaire érotique féminin et masculin dans le roman La Pianiste d’Elfriede Jelinek
"In this study, we examine the erotic imagination of women and men in a problematic novel that sparked heated debates at the time of its publication in 1983, debates resumed with more vigor at the time of attribution to its author of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2004 (in the meantime, the book was also transposed to the cinema in 2001 by the director Michael Haneke). This is the novel The Pianist by Elfriede Jelinek. The two imaginaries (femini…
Cenotaph and Tumulus – Ethics and Memory. The Micronovel Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano and the Fiction of Herta Müller
"The present study approaches the micro-novel Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano from the perspective of memory (and post-memory) which, through documentary work, restores the identity of the victims definitively annulled by the Nazi regime (victims who have no grave). Our hypothesis is that Modiano is building a literary cenotaph for Dora Bruder. For her part, Herta Müller tries, in at least two of her novels (The Land of Green Plums and The Appoint…
Andrei Codrescu – A Portrait of a Writer in Puzzle
The present portrait dedicated to the writer Andrei Codrescu (the most impactful American author of Romanian origin in postmodern world literature) is one of synthesis, depicting the multi-facetedness of this complex and provocative author, who is continuously innovative, experimental and charming as a poet, prose writer, essayist and thinker
Dystopias and Allegories about Communist Romania
This study outlines a typology of dystopias and narrative allegories about Communist Romania, discussing three famous novels: The Black Church by A. E. Baconsky, The Second Messenger by Bujor Nedelcovici, and Farewell, Europe! by Ion D. Sîrbu. The three novels were prohibited from being published during the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu and became drawer manuscripts, seeing the light of print only after the fall of Communism, in 1990, 199…
Debates on the Increased Use of AI. Problematizations, Dilemmas, Polemics, Rivalries, Risks
This essay examines and synthesizes a range of international diplomatic and political forums addressing the complexities of communication between humans and artificial intelligences, as well as the broader phenomenon of artificial intercommunication. Its purpose is to assess the prospects, challenges, adaptations, and risks that such interactions entail, highlighting the ways in which the human species may be confronted by – and must respond to –…
Letter to a Friend and Back to the Country
Lucreția Jurj
This essay analyzes the destiny of an anti-communist partisan woman in the Romanian mountains (Apuseni, Transylvania). Her name is Lucreția Jurj, and she lived between 1928-2004. Lucreția was a partisan for four years, then captured by the Securitate troops, and politically detained for another ten. After her release from prison, she intentionally forgets her past, which she recovers, however, after the fall of the communist regime, becoming one …
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