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LENA CONSTANTE – THERAPY OF INNER ESCAPE
LENA CONSTANTE – THERAPY OF INNER ESCAPE

Author(s): Amalia Drăgulănescu
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: memoirs; literature of testimony; diary; time-space; communist times;

Summary/Abstract: Found between chronicle and testimony, Lena Constante’s memorialistic volumes prove a lucide author, somewhat detached, yet interlaced to others in a catharctic trial, in order to purify the evil, especially by reconciling oneself, not by obliteration, but in exchange by that universal Forgive, but do not forget (rom. A ierta, dar a nu uita). Once with choosing to refer to or to give up story-telling, the author selects intentionally at first, though her free will is completely suppressed or suspended as in any constraint reaching an almost transcendent unity of things up to a passive exchanging or sometimes peer-compassion. In this respect, in L. Constante’s writings a therapy of inner escape is set up and therefore, etymologically leading to healing some past Communist wounds, the post-festum diary not fully or too little reaches the readers’ expectations who find unsolved the facets of self-expression.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 1333-1338
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian