Olivia Manning and the War Exile: A Memory of Ontological Wound
Olivia Manning and the War Exile: A Memory of Ontological Wound

Summary/Abstract: In British literature, Olivia Manning is a prodigious novelist who wrote an incredibly valuable and attractive autobiographical masterpiece, The Balkan Trilogy (1960). The hereby work commences with generic literary traits of Manning’s war novel, which represents the complete setting for the life and authorial views. Furthermore, the study will tackle the traumatic ontological experience Olivia Manning suffered, especially during the travel from England to Romania, crossing the Balkan area. This fact converts her expertise into an unwilling and stunning initiation through a hostile runaway. Additionally, the author of the present work will demonstrate the way Manning, creates an authentic, divergent, and subjective approach to the war spaces the British author recalls. Subsequently, the article hints at the utmost pain of a young war refugee in Bucharest. The paper will also highlight Olivia Manning’s strive to survive in a controversial world, where gradual acceptance of new values and habits becomes a fierce surviving struggle. Accordingly, the article will emphasize the authorial pain as an unforgettable life lesson. The work concludes with a genuine interpretation of the emotional and psychological background of the dramatic condition that the exile provides, especially as an absolute necessity of surviving beyond any rational reason.

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