History, scenery and identity definition with Mircea Nedelciu and Andrzej Stasiuk

Abstract

Bringing together two different contemporary fiction writers – Mircea Nedelciu, a nationally-praised Romanian author, and continentally-acclaimed Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk – the present article focuses on their common preoccupation with (and recurrent representations of) Eastern European identity. A rather meaningful autochthon counterpoint to “classical” approaches on the matter (such as Cioran’s theory of the “historical void”) emerges as their views (coincidentally) converge towards an original and up-to-date way of (re)defining Central and Eastern Europeanism.