Hypostases of Exile  in C.V. Gheorghiu   Cover Image

Ipostazele exilului la C. V. Gheorghiu
Hypostases of Exile in C.V. Gheorghiu

Author(s): Maria Ramona Rusu Blăjan
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: exile; suffering; illusion of freedom; inadequacy; nostalgia of return

Summary/Abstract: C.V. Gheorghiu is growing among those cultured people who managed to bring a new image of the Romanian exile. There are two different stages in the author’s spiritual biography: the first one is represented by the time spent in the country, and the second refers to the years of exile. The troubled destiny and that he had to take the path of emigration is also felt in his work. The novel which offers its consecration is Hour 25, and the second novel appeared in France, The Second Chance is a true analysis of exile. The theme of exile is located in the center of his work in which few of the people in our time feel so well tuned. Adventure or journey towards death, the journey of C.V. Gheorghiu's characters is rich in meanings from their relationship with time, the discovery of otherness, the Other and the self. The writer's purpose is to point out that this second, or third place to establish its characters, this second chance that it offers is in fact an illusion, a delusion, in reality faced with suffering, lack of freedom, terror, captivity, and finally trying to return to the left place, realizing that nowhere felt better, as the original place and life. The situation fits perfectly with that of an exile, a second hand coat worn by an individual who does not belong to, each having his own feeling on the inadequacy to a foreign country, a foreign culture, inappropriate measures. C.V. Gheorghiu characters’ exile is one based on suffering and tearing, with tragic nostalgia and at the same time, with terrible force of purification.

  • Issue Year: 12/2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 99-110
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian