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Satire, Humor and Symbolism

Florentin Smarandache, like many Eastern European writers, uses satire, humor and symbolism to disguise political exposés on the totalitarian regime under which he lived and worked – a regime, which often threatened and carried out against the writers and intellectuals who opposed them, harsh punishment, including coercion, intimidation, creation of damaging dossiers, ostracization, confiscation of their writings, imprisonment, and even death.

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Satire, Humor and Symbolism

Florentin Smarandache, like many Eastern European writers, uses satire, humor and symbolism to disguise political exposés on the totalitarian regime under which he lived and worked – a regime, which often threatened and carried out against the writers and intellectuals who opposed them, harsh punishment, including coercion, intimidation, creation of damaging dossiers, ostracization, confiscation of their writings, imprisonment, and even death.

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Florentin Smarandache i seducia polimorfismului.

Analize, interpretri,
cronici, articole, note i recenzii. Editori: Al. Florin ene, Andrua R. Vtuiu.
Sibiu: Agora, 2017; 843 pages; ISBN 9781599735023.
Transcriere dup un mss. din arhiva Arizona State University, Hayden
Library, Tempe, AZ; USA, colecia Florentin Smarandache Papers. 1997.

A. Johnson

Satire, Humor and Symbolism


Florentin Smarandache, like many Eastern Eur-
opean writers, uses satire, humor and symbolism to
disguise political exposs on the totalitarian regime under
which he lived and worked a regime, which often
threatened and carried out against the writers and
intellectuals who opposed them, harsh punishment,
including coercion, intimidation, creation of damaging
dossiers, ostracization, confiscation of their writings,
imprisonment, and even death.
In addition to incorporating many of the features
of the avant-garde style, Smarandache also included a
profusion of paradoxes and contradictions in his writing.
This new movement, which he founded, is known as
paradoxism.
One of his works in this new literary movement is
A Trilogy in Paradoxism: Avant-Garde Political Dramas. The
three plays can not only be enjoyed for their enter-
tainment value as comedic performances (or, in the case
of this book, comedic literature), but can also be viewed
(or read) as a study in profundity, if experienced from a

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broader viewpoint. The irrelevant, sexual, absurd,


profane, and gross scenes are meant to emphasize the
paradoxical, cruel, and nonsensical nature of political
scenarios that they represent.
Many scenes and depictions must be portrayed
though metaphysical means decided upon by the
producer or director of the production, and do not stand
as a model or instigation for criminal or illegal behavior
on stage or off.
Notwithstanding the thousands of variations that
are possible, the overall style of the performance must
remain true to the authors original work by the use of
profanities, slang, sexual references, horror, quotes, and
other avant-garde techniques.
This English-laguage adaptation represents a
cotemporary presentation of Smarandaches trilogy,
which was originally written in secret during his difficult
years as a Romanian dissident under the totalitarian
Ceauescu regime.
Some of the characters have been changed and the
vernacular of the translated dialogue altered to reflect a
scenario, which American readers can relate to.
Athough fictitious character names are used, the
readers may take an interactive part by substituting the,

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with relevant players from their own political world and,


subsenquently, reading the dialogue from that pers-
pective.
In this way, Smarandaches dramas will appear
fresh, provocative, and qui rapport indefinitely.

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