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Literatura ca periferie generalizată şi asumată
Literature as a Generalized and Assumed Periphery

Author(s): Nicoleta Sălcudeanu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: exile; anomia; nostalgia; periphery

Summary/Abstract: The question of the wandering writer becomes one of the wandering writing. The writer finds his shelter in difference and double identity. Banishment may be a new birth, a founding energy. The contemporary cultural orphanage eludes the terror of temporality, it has became emancipated from the metaphysical oppression and goes straight to concomitance, that means a new perception of the world, an assumed banishment and an easy resignation. Leaving away is not any more a trite spirit of adventure or race maintenance, but becomes, more and more, a stylistic composition of living. While misplacement is not anymore the reason of all the troubles of creature, its benefit is a more comfortable manner of living inside the ontological landscape. The result means a new way of ambiguity, freedom and creativity. Creature wins the privilege of looking back not with rage, but with irony, his glance is cured by the tatters of the abandoned landscape. Ubiquity and peripherity becomes a way of life.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 63-70
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian
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