ON THE VERGE BETWEEN LIVES. PATURI OCULTE AND THE POETICS OF TIME Cover Image

LA PRAGUL DINTRE VIEȚI. PATURI OCULTE ȘI POETICA TIMPULUI
ON THE VERGE BETWEEN LIVES. PATURI OCULTE AND THE POETICS OF TIME

Author(s): Elena-Luiza Negură
Subject(s): Novel, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: fantastic; love; temporality; carob; symbol;

Summary/Abstract: Placed at a symbolic intersection between Life and Death, Doina Rusti’s novel, Paturi oculte, opens up the path to a hermeneutical labyrinth, in which the reader is guided only by the line of Love. In the real world, the fantastic dimension emerges as a stream, leading the way to the unseen part of the universe, where Time doesn’t flow, putting everything on hold. The circle of life becomes smaller or wider, but, either way, in the centre is the man and his life. The falling of a leaf or the growth of a seed creates a new temporal wave, as a reminder of what existence may be in the enormous web to which are souls are connected.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 476-483
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian