IDENTITY SPEECH IN WASTED MORNING BY GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU
IDENTITY SPEECH IN WASTED MORNING BY GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU
Author(s): Gabriela GheorghisorSubject(s): Cultural history, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: post-war canonic novel; family novel; identity discourse; anti-Caragialean spirit; donquijotal idealism;
Summary/Abstract: Wasted Morning by Gabriela Adameşteanu is today a canonical novel of the post-war Romanian literature. It enjoys a wide (positive) critical reception and counts over ten translations in foreign languages. This article analyzes the identity discourse in the family micro-novel, embedded in the narrative ensemble of Wasted Morning. The author of this discourse with critical accents is the university professor Stefan Mironescu, a counterpointed character of Vica Delcă, a serious, anti-Caragialean spirit, that denounces the continuously self-dissolving derision of the Romanian people, and sees in the donquijotal idealism a solution for national progress.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 497-500
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian
