CONSTANTIN MORARIU, O CRONICĂ DIN BUCOVINA (II)
Constantin Morariu. A Chronicle of Bukowina (II)

Summary/Abstract: The following study, which will be printed in two parts, starts from the volume signed by the Bukovinian priest Constantin Morariu, The Course of My Life. Memoirs, published in 1998, but it is not a presentation of this book. Taking into account that this volume of memoirs can also be seen and commented on as a bildungsroman, the author of the study aims to portray, on the one hand, the personality of the memorialist Constantin Morariu, reconstructing and questioning his vision of his own life. On the other hand, the author intends to extract from the concrete world of facts those from his own existence or from the experience of others, from the present or the past. The memorialist reconstructs an image of Bukovina of the second half of the 19th century, an epic of it, all the more relevant because here the truth and the imaginary are intertwined. A hero, the memorialist himself, viewed perhaps apotheotically in his becoming, is at the center of this bildungsroman. Equally legitimate, however, the central character of Constantin Morariu’s memoirs is Bukovina itself; obviously, the Austrian Bukovina, of which the Romanians’ battle for the discovery of self-awareness is a part.

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