The Private Self
The Private Self

Summary/Abstract: “Al doilea Eu” (The Second Self) by Liana Cozea has managed to capture and to hold in critical formulas the ambivalence of femininity in the art of diary. Some clichés about femininity are dynamited by Liana Cozea’s book on the female self and diary. The diaries of the five analyzed authors, Maria Cantacuzino-Enescu, Nina Cassian, Gabriela Melinescu, Ioana Em. Petrescu, Alice Voinescu have an existential stake. Liana Cozea’s book rescues the right of femininity to assert itself in existential terms, rather than in segregational ones. The critic’s argumentation has the fluency of lively prose-writing. The five examples selected show that the tribulations of diaries are gender-less in terms of dealing with crises and succumbing to anxieties.

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