DU VISIBLE A L’INVISIBLE: FELICIA MIHALI
FROM THE VISIBLE TO THE INVISIBLE: FELICIA MIHALI

Summary/Abstract: This paper proposes to examine the work of Felicia Mihali through the lens of the sensible perception of imagination, with a view to observing the manner in which fiction inhabits and reconfigures reality. In the books of Felicia Mihali, a Romanian-born novelist established in Canada, imagination emerges as a mediating space between memory, alterity, and the re-creation of the real. The novels Le tarot de Cheffersville and Sweet, Sweet China unfold a poetics of the in-between in which phantasia becomes the site of symbolic and identitarian recomposition. The migratory universe crossed by uprootedness and the quest for belonging, finds its aesthetic articulation in a mode of writing where image, vision, and dream function as privileged modes of access to the world’s sensible truth. The works of Felicia Mihali thus articulate an expanded conception of imagination, following the memory of the senses and the projection of the intellect. Imagination emerges as the locus of an aesthetic configuration of the world, a space of metamorphosis in which the migratory experience is transfigured into poetic vision.

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