Biografie şi istorie (sec. XX) Moş Ivănescu din Rusca
Biography and History: Old Man Ivănescu from Rusca

Summary/Abstract: Life story is one of the most usual method in Oral History by which individual destinies are emphasized in the context of macrohistory and also the way he/she perceived the history during the life. Ion Ivanescu, a 94 years old villager from Rusca, Banat (in the South-Western part of Romania) is by far not only a witness but "l'homme memoire". He put down his own memories in the contex1of community he lived in a diary written during 50 years; then he related his life story, at 94, in a biographical interview. The story of his life related about his own destiny and also his family's and the destiny of the community he lives in, a destiny which is specific to the peasants world in the Romanian society of this century. There are three important moments that influenced his life: the First World War, the Second World War and the drama of the communist system in Romania. The most interesting aspects of Ion lvanescu's life are related to his opinion about the events he had lived. First of all the author tried to reconstitute the impact of the great historic and political events upon Ion lvanescu's life, the way he participated to them and the activeness and passiveness concerning these events. The story of his life is received as a aspecific villager mentality, characterized by invariable and slow rhythms but revealing the most important moments in everyone's life: childhood, youth, adultness and old age. His life story can be received as a right measure of how the history was lived by the world of children.

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