Variațiuni pe aceeași temă – hărți pentru scrierea unei biografii
Variations on the Same Theme – Maps for Writing a Biography

Summary/Abstract: The collection of Polirom Publishing House Biografii romanțate (Romanticized Biographies) includes three recent volumes that bring to our attention the biographies of Romanian visual artists - Moni Stănilă, Brâncuși sau cum a învățat țestoasa să zboare (Brâncusi or how the turtle learned to fly) (2019), Veronica D. Niculescu, Luchian. Ochii, sufletul, mâna (Luchian. The Eyes, the Soul, the Hand) (2020) and Anca Vieru, Pallady. Ulise legat de catarg (Pallady. Odysseus tied to the Mast) (2023). Employing various narrative techniques, insisting especially on certain periods of the creators' lives or covering (more or less) their entire existential journey, these biographies represent the product of a creative process that can be partially illuminated by the analysis of interviews given by the authors and of their interventions at the launches of such books. Which stage was more difficult in building these biographies? Were there in the conception, in the writing, revelatory emotional thresholds? Did the authors perceive ideological fusions with the artists they were writing about or not? To what extent did these emotional consonances help them in writing the romanticized biography? What exactly led women writers to choose to keep silent about/to veil certain aspects of the artists' lives? What ways have they discovered, beyond diaries, memoirs, letters, to give coherence to a creative consciousness? What elements are considered factors of maximum responsibility in writing a biography? Here are some questions answers of which will try to draw a bridge between the authentic and the believable.

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