Postmodernism, a Poetry of Memory

Abstract

Literature represents the act of solidarity between individual and collective memory, being, at the same time, a means of remembering and interpreting the past with the help of fiction, but also of memory. Postmodernism is a literary current that makes a foray into history and tries to re-articulate the past in terms of a desecrated present. Marin Sorescu, representative of Romanian postmodernism, builds in his poetry a nucleus of individual and collective memory of the past. The act of remembrance is generated by the memory and testimony of some of his contemporaries, and the poems become stories of the past. Here the literature fulfills the role of representing the social reality of the Romanian village before and after the deruralization achieved by socialism. The exponents of the described village are only versions of the individual and collective experience of history.