THE PULSATING TIME OF EXISTENCE – SIMULTANEITY AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE ADVENTURE OF MIRCEA NEDELCIU'S WRITINGS Cover Image

TIMPUL PULSATORIU AL EXISTENȚEI – SIMULTANEITATE ȘI FRAGMENTARISM ÎN AVENTURA SCRIERILOR LUI MIRCEA NEDELCIU
THE PULSATING TIME OF EXISTENCE – SIMULTANEITY AND FRAGMENTATION IN THE ADVENTURE OF MIRCEA NEDELCIU'S WRITINGS

Author(s): Gabriela Anamaria Gâlea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: rhizomatic labyrinth; rhythmic or pulsating time; non-chronological time;irrational cuts; time image

Summary/Abstract: In postmodern prose, whose spatial model is the rhizomatic labyrinth or the archipelago, we witness a pulverization of temporality, both on the axis of the storyteller - through the use of metaphors of textuality - and on the axis of the storyteller - through the overlapping of temporal moments, the dilation or compression of time depending on the attitude and perception the subject. Florentina Sâmihăian identifies several ways of temporal representation in the order of the discourse, of a time of the story defined as rhythmic or pulsating. Chronological time, the present as the sequence between a before and an after, is replaced by a non-chronological time, whether we are talking about incursions into the successive layers of the past, by a present marked by the simultaneity of peaks within the same event, or by an interval of time generated within a moment by an engagement. The fragmentation and absurdity of reality are marked at the level of artistic representation through the dominance of the immeasurable, through a permanent confrontation between an interior that reflects, trying to integrate events into concepts, and an exterior from which the laws of association, similarity or visible opposition disappear at the level of the imaginary through irrational cuts.

  • Issue Year: 25/2024
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 7-22
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian
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