THE DIARY OF AN INSOMNIAC: AL. BUSUIOCEANU AND THE TROUBLED INTIMACY
THE DIARY OF AN INSOMNIAC: AL. BUSUIOCEANU AND THE TROUBLED INTIMACY

Summary/Abstract: The diaristic notes of Al. Busuioceanu are gathered under the paradoxical title Midnight Note-books, being elaborated, literally, during the night, because of the extreme insomnia and of his unclearly diagnosticated malady. Moreover, the diary of this writer represents the unique confessor, and one of the few allies, of this misanthrope professor, who willingly stays away from the madding crowd, in order to get closer of himself, in a sustained effort of auto-definition. In this regard, the difficulty and the obscurity, up to a point, - in the sense of partial indistinction of the auctorial figure –constitute prominent marks of the autobiographical discourse. The professor of Hispanic civilization disguised, in a premeditated way, the features of his personality, preferring the formula of a severe, and yet open diary, respecting the discipline of the most well-known conventions – the clause of regularity, the relative sincerity, the principle of simultaneity -, and renouncing the literarised perspective, more generous in expressivity, from the outset. This complicated and original strategy, and even ritual, could be integrated, from our point of view, in the content of the expression the troubled intimacy (in a wide sense).

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