THE PRIVILEGED SPACE OF THE MIRROR IN ALICE BOTEZ'S IMAGINATION
THE PRIVILEGED SPACE OF THE MIRROR IN ALICE BOTEZ'S IMAGINATION

Summary/Abstract: Nae Ionescuʼs luminous student, Alice Botez would know the taste of social resignation, but not the relinquishment of the moral and aesthetic principles and norms, her writing remaining her weapon and ultimate recourse. Alice Botezʼs world concentrates a sum of elements, indications of a dynamic and demolishing search: an amalgam of legend and fairy-tale, of aerial and real, of sacred and profane, of immaterial and material. The personal cosmos has the data of a symbolic geography and it is constructed by successive reccurences, by crossing the threshold and urges towards another world, and one of the most necessary gestures of the symbolic economy of passing over is that of opening the gate towards beyond or towards this side. The result is an anti-world, an mirror a frame up of a play having shadows as characters, with the same chaotic setting in which the elements of an adversary nature trade the roles for the architectural elements: hills, valleys, crypts, chasms, streams of water, black and round hollows, rain and mud that deploy on the cobblestone pavement a black and white film, manually kneaded caves in the darkness.

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