Viaţa este vis sau visul este viaţa? Problema identităţii lui Segismundo analizată prin motivul dublului
Is life a dream, or is dreaming life? Segismundo’s identity matter, analysed through the motif of the double

Summary/Abstract: The Baroque interrogates the relationship between life and dream, precisely, life as form of dreaming. Life itself has its roots in the oneiric. Over the time, the motif of life as a dream develops into multiple areas of literature, for example, migrating into Romanticism. The history-tracking’s task of all texts that address, in one way or another, the relationship between life and dream would be very difficult, if not impossible. Being a universally spread motif, its history is extremely complex, with influences that extend up to postmodernism. The aim of this article is to analyze the complex relationship between life and dream through reversibility. Or in other words, their relationship that goes through the reversal of their power balances – not life as a dream, but rather dreaming as life. The dream becomes “as real”, or even exceeds the reality of life. To illustrate the idea, a good example is Calderón de la Barca’s dramatic text, Life Is a Dream (La vida es sueño).

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