FROM WORD-MIRACLE TO WORD-WEAPON IN THE WORK OF NORMAN MANEA
FROM WORD-MIRACLE TO WORD-WEAPON IN THE WORK OF NORMAN MANEA

Summary/Abstract: This work proposes a detailed analysis of the relationship that the writer Norman Manea has with the Romanian language. The link is the more complex, the more the contemporary author, one of the most translated Romanian writers outside the country, has known the experience of Occidental exile, preceded by that of the concentration camp and of communism. I have nevertheless opted to detach it from the purely linguistic area and project it onto a plane of interiority. In this sense, we attempted to find the bottlenecks of this relationship, activated and reactivated with each trauma that the character undergoes, as well as the changes that occur at a linguistic level. The transition of the writer between two different cultures – the Romanian and the American one – to which is added the Jewish background – circumscribes his work and writing vision into a complex poetic, coagulating all elements decentralised from writings and from the identitary self-projection. In defining this relationship, we will attempt to identify and analyse the modulations that the link between Manea the writer and his original language suffers, depending on the socio-political and ideological context.

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