The Mysteries of the Post-Communist Vampire: Detective Features in the Novel Nepotul lui Dracula by Alexandru Mușina

The association of the vampire with Eastern Europe has evolved in crime fictions which transform this fantastic character from a supernatural being to a means to comment on politics, many of them focusing on the imagological opposition between Eastern Europe and the Western world, a treatment that began with Stoker’s Dracula. Our paper analyses the transformation of this imagological vampiric stereotype, by investigating the deconstructivist novel Nepotul lui Dracula (Dracula’s Nephew) (2012) by the Romanian writer Alexandru Mușina