VARIANTE ALE INIȚIERII ÎN SINGURĂTATE ÎN JOCUL CUNOAȘTERII DE SINE ȘI A REALITĂȚII PREZENTE ÎN PROZA PALERIANĂ
VARIATIONS OF THE INITIATION IN SOLITUDE IN THE GAME OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND OF THE REALITY PRESENTED IN PALER’S PROSE
Author(s): Maria HolhoșSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Aeternitas
Keywords: autobiography; loneliness; maze,; knowledge; solitary;
Summary/Abstract: The long detours to reach the self, mentioned in "Cordial polemics", meant for the writer a maze of the initiations in solitude. The alternative to the analysis of the initiation in loneliness seems to be Philippe Lejeune's proposal in the volume "Autobiographical Pact". Thus, we can identify in Paler's prose instinctive, assumed, imposed or searched pacts.In his descriptions, confessions or meditations, the writer recalls the years of his childhood, always confronting the past with the present, convinced that only in this way the present can be better understood.Preserving his vital connection with "at home"in an emotional manner, full of nostalgia, he actually doomed himself to loneliness. Octavian Paler, for whom progress meant “less loneliness" ("Diary at the Seaside") through the characters' ample angle finds himself, in turns, in the three states of the solitary adventurer: the nostalgic, disillusioned viewer, the moralist and aesthete observer, the involved critical witness DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2017.8.7
Journal: Incursiuni în imaginar
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 149-169
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Romanian