Benjamin Fondane și problematica identității
Benjamin Fondane and the Issue of Identity

Summary/Abstract: The issue of identity is a constant in the works of writers who belong to multiple cultures. The case of Benjamin Fondane is a special one precisely from this perspective. The poet decided to go to France because of the discrepancies between his vision and the Romanian literary world whose modernist movements were still at the beginning. Although he left his homeland, B. Fundoianu, who became Benjamin Fondane in his adoptive country, he continued to carry in his consciousness the spirit of his native places, being marked by their simplicity and, at the same time, their complexity. In fact, all these particularities can be argued by the biographical events of Fundoianu-Fondane: from a happy childhood, in places of archaic beauty and the first contact with literature, to the tragic end, full of dignity and resignation, in the Auschwitz extermination camp. Fundoianu-Fondane's literary evolution is marked by a perpetual search for identity, a place that corresponds to the spiritual demands of the creator. Reconstructing the key moments in Fundoianu Fondane’s biography allows the creation of an “identity portrait” rendered in the texts he signed over time. His conception of the complexity of the human being and the role that geographical and cultural spaces have on the constitution of an identity consciousness emerges from the texts he wrote and published both in the Romanian and in the French literary space.

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