THE ONTOLOGY OF SOLITUDE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF REFLEXIVITY IN THE EXPERIENCE OF CULTURAL JOURNEY. CASE STUDY: OCTAVIAN PALER AND A.E. BACONSKY
THE ONTOLOGY OF SOLITUDE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF REFLEXIVITY IN THE EXPERIENCE OF CULTURAL JOURNEY. CASE STUDY: OCTAVIAN PALER AND A.E. BACONSKY

Summary/Abstract: This essay discusses the problem of the ontological solitude, as it is highlighted in the travel journals of two Romanian nowadays writers: A.E. Baconsky and Octavian Paler. The travel memories mark, beyond their anthropological and cultural consistency, the private mentality of the traveller exposed to circular exercises of accessing fragments of the visited civilizations. For the cultural traveller the journey itself has a curative and reforming role. The solitude of the traveller is precisely the nucleus and the circular motif that facilitates self-reading attitude during the new experience. We will demonstrate that all our trips follow an inner axis and only apparently departures separate us from personal geographies.

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