PICTURES AND MEMORY IN THE NOVELS THE PHOTO LIBRARY. THEME AND VARIATIONS AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE ROYAL COURT
PICTURES AND MEMORY IN THE NOVELS THE PHOTO LIBRARY. THEME AND VARIATIONS AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE ROYAL COURT
Author(s): Dana Nicoleta PopescuSubject(s): Novel, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: novel; image; symbol; memory; psychology; history;
Summary/Abstract: Our approach aims to present the intersection point of the novels The Photo Library. Theme and Variations by Adriana Bittel and The Photographer of Royal Court by Simona Antonescu: the two books meet around the symbol of the photo as a means of capturing the ephemerality of significant moments. Adriana Bittel’s highly subjective voice focuses on the witness of numerous destinies, a woman who guards the photo library of a magazine, both her job and the meaning of her life. The protagonist of Simona Antonescu’s novel, a successful photographer in the Belle Epoque Bucharest, is also a keeper of his contemporaries’ history.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 29
- Page Range: 384-387
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian
