IDENTITY MARKS IN THE PROSE OF CĂTĂLIN DORIAN FLORESCU AND JAN CORNELIUS
IDENTITY MARKS IN THE PROSE OF CĂTĂLIN DORIAN FLORESCU AND JAN CORNELIUS

Summary/Abstract: Among the Romanian German-speaking writers, Cătălin Dorian Florescu, settled in Zurich, Switzerland, and Jan Cornelius, who emigrated to Germany, in Dusseldorf, can be analyzed in tandem due to some remarkable similarities: their origin in the Romanian Banat, their exile during the dictatorial communism which lead. in both cases, to multilingualism and multiculturalism, their successful affirmation as prose writers in the German-speaking area, the fact that they are both famous due to their autobiographical prose in which they frequently problematize the opposition between East and West, and, most surprisingly, the irony and humour in their treatment of the theme of identity. In the present work we have identified those important marks of identity present in their literary works, which justify their double literary belonging, both to German-language literature and to Romanian literature.

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