REPRÉSENTATIONS DE LA RÉTICENCE CHEZ MARTHE BIBESCO
REPRESENTATIONS OF RETICENCE WITH MARTHA BIBESCO

Summary/Abstract: In the attempt to integrate into the community of Isvor, princess Marie, the owner of the Isvor estate, comes up against the manifestly reticent attitude of this rural society. Her desire to connect with her people and to discover the Other, the indigenous villager, in its authenticity, will generate reluctance and fear among the inhabitants of this land. As the mistress of the estate, she represents an instance. Far from being seen as a person, she embodies authority and power in the eyes of the villagers. Although she becomes aware of her otherness in the perspective of “Aenea’s contemporaries”, the princess seeks to penetrate the mystery of their existence, an existence filled with rituals and customs. The dialectic of I and the Other, of Identity and Otherness, of Self and Non-Self, highlights in Isvor. The Country of Willows reticence as an attitude towards the Other.

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