Noaptea de Sânziene ca „roman al artistului”

Abstract

A fictional text may include a metatextual component, inviting the reader to
a critical reading. When an author of fiction imagines a novel in a grid of metatextual
writing strategy, he contests the tyranny of the story, launching, at the same time, a
hypothesis related to the message of the work. In order to stir interaction between the
text and the act of reading, he constructs metafiction below the level of the narrative plot
Assuming Gide’s model, Eliade’s novel of maturity introduces the question of
the writer in its diegesis, by appealing to the theme of the double. If one of the facets of
the novel traces the mirror writing, it begs a question related to the profile of the reader
who Eliade envisages upon the publication of his novel. Does the self-reflective attitude
towards his own creation, which he assumes through the voices of the characters-writers
(Ciru Partenie and Bibicescu), draw (or nor) the reader’s attention to the fabricated
character of the referential illusion?