Double-coded or Double-faced? Politics of liminality in the fiction of the Eighties Generation

Having proposed liminality and double-codedness as key concepts for understanding the fiction of the Romanian Eighties Generation and its cultivation of apparently irreconcilable polar opposites (such as realism and 'textual engineering'), the author of the present article will turn to the political implications of the liminal. Carrying out two contradictory representation projects at once might have been challenging and profitable aesthetically, but was it morally? While engaged in double-codedness doesn't one run the risk of being perceived as double-faced? Twenty years after the 'optzecist' project, these are questions that have yet to get a definitive answer.