Spaţii imaginare în povestirile fantastice ale lui I. P. Culianu
Imaginary Spaces in the Fantastic Stories of I. P. Culianu

Summary/Abstract: In the volume „The Pale Parchment” by Ioan Petru Culianu, there are described some spaces favourable to communication: the exhibition, the museum, the camp, the store etc. Emphasizing the changes in the postmodern society, the author stresses the idea of individual alienation. The places favourable to communication in contemporary society are various, increased in number, improved in comfort and much promoted by mass-media. However, they seem suitable for the emigrant’s or treveller’s soul, who has left his universe willing to fit in some political, economic, spiritual new mentalities, finding clear differences in belonging and identification. The concrete individuality of the spaces described in the fantastic Culian short stories and stories creates the illusion of non-space related to non-time, as instruments of adjustment of individual conscience related to collectivity. In these creation, the laws of the ordinary world seem suspended in the hope of configuration of some solvable dilemas only at certain levels of reality.

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