ABOUT SPACES, LIMITS AND WANDERINGS IN ʺA WOMAN FOR APOCALYPSEʺ, BY VINTILA HORIA Cover Image

ABOUT SPACES, LIMITS AND WANDERINGS IN ʺA WOMAN FOR APOCALYPSEʺ, BY VINTILA HORIA
ABOUT SPACES, LIMITS AND WANDERINGS IN ʺA WOMAN FOR APOCALYPSEʺ, BY VINTILA HORIA

Author(s): Liliana Danciu
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Romanian Literature, Migration Studies
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: exile; woman; "At home"; Eros; stranger; Apocalypse;

Summary/Abstract: The exile people live on their consciousness a real tragedy of a breaking off a sacred forgotten thing. They are forced to abandon it, but they'll miss it a lot. They'll miss it as much as Adam will always miss that "rib" which he desires tragically to obtain it with every embrace of the loved woman. The phenomenon of the exile represent a limited situation, through the man needs get lost in the unknown, estranging from the edenic place of "At home", assuming the Stranger condition with all that the popular and cultural literature has invested him. Even if the image of "At home" suffers some negative mutations from the hypostasis of the Stranger in a new world, which doesn't desire him, will establish him to revalue positively that Lost Paradise. Vintilă Horia is a great Romanian writer, who has unfortunately known the exile because of the contamination of "At home", which had become a space of reprisals and injustice. He was adopted by Spain, which has become another "At home" since he died. The novel A women for Apocalypse valorizes positively the feminine, so the feminine becomes the "key" of the mystical, ontological and spiritual rescue of the whole humanity. If the men bring about the war and hatred, the woman brings about the rescue, through her love. Time is not the enemy of the man any more, but it is his ally, because it hasn't got any power to terrorize and the death has been defeated by love. "At home" means the absolute love of a woman, who succeeds in raising the spirit to that initial Lost Paradise.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 707-714
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian