CAMINATE BETWEEN JOURNEY DIARY AND CONFESSION
CAMINATE BETWEEN JOURNEY DIARY AND CONFESSION

Summary/Abstract: Octavian Paler’s writing Caminante though liable to fall into the journey diary category along with Journeys through memory. Egypt. Greece, Journeys through memory. Italy, still contrasts through personal load, through the need for confession. Therefore, in Caminante Octavian Paler nevertheless breaks free from Journey through memory leaving the travel memories genre and entering the authentic journal territory. Paler uses his journey to Mexico as a pretext for a series of essays on Cortés, Ciudad de Mexico, Moctezuma, aztecs and mayans, pyramids and life in general. The writer will assume in Caminante the traveller’s condition, for whom the journey means self-awareness, confrontation with himself and his dilemmas. Through myths, Paler is trying to offer himself a compensation of the struggle against an overwhelming reality, in a world created without fissures and upsetting questions. Octavian Paler’s journeys display a profound intellectual adventure, meaningful and shining, one detectable on the ideatic level rather than on the level of an immediate reality.

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