Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga, memorialistul
Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga, the memoirist

Summary/Abstract: The journeys undertaken by the Romanian scholars outside the country’s borders confess, most of the times, in a mysterious manner, the necessity of acknowledgment and eternal storage of the lived experiences through the act of writing. That is why the memorialistic genre turns easily towards what is called the diaristic side of the narrated events which denotes a deep subjective perception of the narrative voice that, in the same time, combines itself with short “historical-literary” descriptions of the visited places rendered by likelihood. In a consumption society that emphasizes more and more on the situation of the “passive-traveler” (just a “simple tourist”) by which we understand an individual that lives with a superficial and detachable joy the moment of meeting with the unknown and with the new, referring to it in an artificial way, without seeing and decoding the hidden “signs” that surround the environment, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga debates in her book on a humanistic and an alive periplus. The author had the chance to travel around the world because of her active involvement in the cultural movements of her epoch, performing a variety of duties/positions/tasks in the literary life of the XX century - fact that created her the convenience to visit some European countries, otherwise, “forbidden” or “closed” to the Romanians in general. All in all, it is to be mentioned that the study Humanistic Periplus is part of a larger field of research. It does not only objectively, telegraphically, apathetically record – as a dictionary or a touristic guide does – the visiting of Greece, England, Italy, Sweden, France, Holland, but, otherwise, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga naturally uses subjective insertions and theoretical explanations that point out the descriptions of the events decorating its in an attractive and thrilling “cover”. As a matter of fact, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga focuses her discourse on a triple analysis: subiectivism/partialism/personalism, scientific relating and interpretation.

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