ÎN CĂUTAREA IDENTITĂȚII PIERDUTE. STUDIU DE CAZ - ROMANUL ȚARA BRÂNZEI DE FELICIA MIHALI
FELICIA MIHALI`s NOVEL "THE CHEESELAND". IN SEARCH OF LOST IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: Felicia Mihali`s debut novel was published in 1998. The author is herself a Romanian expatriate living in Montreal. The contemporary book ”Ţara brânzei” (The Cheeseland/ Le Pays du fromage) is built around the story of the protagonist's return to her native land, a return to her origins that activates her memory, a foray into her own existential path. Confrontations with revived memories, with palpable traces of the family's past give consistency to the heroine's new destiny, offering the reader a disturbing mirror by reflecting the taboos, customs, prejudices of the rural world. The relocation is not only a change of the spatial paradigm (rural-urban), a turning point that will contribute to redefining the course of life, but also the protagonist's attempt to reconfigure her personal identity by accessing the collective identity. The status of women is also analyzed and illustrated in the pages of Felicia Mihali`s book with particular realism, with journalistic accuracy, in an expressive, laconic, eloquent style.

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