THE MIRAGE OF THE PROVISIONAL EVASION AND ITS ILLUSIONS
THE MIRAGE OF THE PROVISIONAL EVASION AND ITS ILLUSIONS

Summary/Abstract: Written almost a century ago, Mihail Sebastianʼs plays preserve their appealing freshness, warm sensibility and their exceptional seductive power. His characters, dreamers unable to cope with a harsh reality, are caught in their struggle with the limitations imposed by a hostile environment, in their pursuit of happiness. By using the therapeutical game of obliviousness and its mechanisms, they consciously or unintentionally create illusions that convey the feeling of liberation. The mask is fundamental in their attempt to escape as it proves indispensable for the birth of those parabolic movements of the two axes (of time and space) shifting far from their conventional linearity. Imagination, a peculiar case of metaphorical prosopagnosia, the dilation or contraction of time and space up to their absolute dilution guarantee the mere possibility that the mirage gets to be lived as pure experience.

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