A SPECIAL CASE OF LITERARY MARGINALITY - MĂRGĂRITA MILLER-VERGHY (1865-1953)
A SPECIAL CASE OF LITERARY MARGINALITY - MĂRGĂRITA MILLER-VERGHY (1865-1953)

Summary/Abstract: Why does fate remain implacable for certain works and certain personalities on which criticism passes over with relative negligence or worse still, which remain ignored by the public and critics? Is it just the imponderables of fate or is it also an unfavourable social context? Mărgărita Miller-Verghy represents one of these “cases” of marginality, she is among those “forgotten” of Romanian literature. She follows by her destiny the path that women's literature has travelled: from anonymity to full acceptance, from submission to liberation. Her portrait is representative for this social category which at the beginning was not accepted, but which finally imposed itself as an indubitable reality: ,,the woman-writer”. The woman she has gone through different stages of life, remaining the same, beyond social challenges and confirming the model of the heroic woman who, like Phèdre or Antigone, makes the great journey beyond death.

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