România la persoana întâi, perspective la persoana a treia sau Despre discursul (auto)biografic românesc şi ecourile lui poloneze
Romania in the 1st Person, Perspectives in the 3rd Person or On the Romanian (Auto)Biographic Discourse and its Polish Echoes

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims at analysing the relations between the Romanian (auto-)biographical texts (diaries, memoirs, (auto-)biographical fictions, ego-fictions, etc.) and the specialised Polish readers, more exactly the students in the MA programme of the Romanian Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (4th and 5th years). This study is the result of a series of lectures and seminars held under the title ’Romanian(Auto-)Biographical Discourse’ which I introduced in the curriculum in Poznan, Poland, for the MA programme. As a result of this series of lectures and seminars, the following were to be remarked: almost all MA theses approached one or more (auto-)biographical titles, the relation between the specialised readers (here the students) and the texts became a personal and personalised one, leading to an emphasised identification of the reader(s) with the author(s), the narrator(s) or the characters in the books; reading one book for the course led to more books read on the same topic; the number of translations proposed by the specialised readers to the Polish publishing house increased, all of them tacking the domain of (auto-)biography, some of the students being developing translators, the level of the Romanian language spoken and written improved to a very high extent, the publication of a volume of essays written by the MA students as a result of the course, some of the books analysed being: Mihail Sebastian’s Diary, Emil Cioran’s Notebooks, Valeriu Anania’s Memoirs, The Diary of Happiness by N. Steinhardt, etc. The volume of essays is being published at present. As a consequence, we aim for this study to investigate the relation between text and reader and the possible motives and motivations for which the study of (auto-)biographical texts can lead to extremely beneficial results for the students of Romanian language as second language (L2) both from a didactic point of view and from the point of view of education in a humanistic sense

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