Consenescence and Ephemerality in Livius Ciocârlie’s Work Cover Image

Despre bătrânețe și efemeritate în opera lui Livius Ciocârlie
Consenescence and Ephemerality in Livius Ciocârlie’s Work

Author(s): Elena Mateiu
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: autobiography; consenescence; death; diary; ephemerality

Summary/Abstract: The work of Livius Ciocârlie has three stages of creation, the latest one being mostly autobiographical. We believe that the author brings innovation to our literature through a new form of journal of ideas, the ephemeral diary. The book “Bătrâneţe şi moarte în mileniul al treilea” opens the paradigmatic series of works created by using fragmentation as a writing technique, focusing on the sense of inconsistency, perceiving living as survival on the surface, in the form of sweet freedom. The book is not questioning the two main themes of humanity, but is presented in an autobiographical form, a subjective study, where personal reading notes are carefully positioned in order to promote a new type of literature. It is essentially a plea for the importance of small things in human life, a promotion of the idea that the existence of a simple person (the writer himself, his wife, nephew, mother, etc.) finds its place in the universe through transient, insignificant facts.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 53
  • Page Range: 155-157
  • Page Count: 4
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