„STRĂINI” ŞI „VENETICI”. O MITOLOGIE GNOSTICĂ A EXILULUI
"FOREIGNERS" AND "EXILED". A GNOSTIC MYTHOLOGY OF THE EXILE

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at analysing the ways in which the ancestral xenophobia exceeds modern scents. As investigated, from a connotative point of view, the foreigner’s portrayal can induce a state of detachment and even threat. The vocabulary of some indo-european languages, together with the idioms of the negative alterity and the foreigner’s literature come to prove this. Still, in the fictitious collective, the foreigner is much more than a sum of ethnic features, it is exactly what draws our attention and even more, the recurrence of a gnostic scenario in the Romanian presentation of the history and of the exile as seen by authors such as: Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Vintilă Horia, Ioan Petru Culianu. The corpus chosen is not exhaustive but illustrative and intended to catch the other’s figure (Euripide, Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, Vintilă Horia, Michael Cunningham) from different perspectives.

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