THE POETICS OF THE DIARY
THE POETICS OF THE DIARY

Summary/Abstract: Considered by Eugen Simion a „kind of drawer", which many practice, but few admit it in the space of literature, the journal is a possible form of creation. The journal is a species of the autobiographical genre that contains daily records of someone about certain events: military operations, an expedition, a voyage by sea. As a literary genre, the journal is at the border with the other genres of biography (autobiography, memoirs). We propose to identify common elements with these, but also those similarities that place the intimate journal on the border with literature.

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