THE BOOK OF AUCTORIAL SINCERITY. OCTAVIAN PALER’S NOVEL LIFE ON A PLATFORM AND THE CONTINUOUS NECESITY OF PROBLEMATIZING THE EXISTENCE
THE BOOK OF AUCTORIAL SINCERITY. OCTAVIAN PALER’S NOVEL LIFE ON A PLATFORM AND THE CONTINUOUS NECESITY OF PROBLEMATIZING THE EXISTENCE

Summary/Abstract: This essay aims to concentrate a brave entrance into the palerian novel’s subsidiary, Viaţa pe un peron, a novel about the human existence, seen in perhaps the most tensioned of its own images. Its numerous tensions the literary scenario is filled with are being shown, as a paradox or maybe not, we might say … through the ,,adamic couple”, represented by a history teacher and a woman, Eleonora. It’s no need for other characters. Those two replace, in all their actions, the gestures, the winces, the lamentations or the unrests of HUMAN BEING, from anywhere and anytime. Their way of acting seems to be reduced, constantly, to the same common point: life into the solitude, but not any kind of solitude, that solitude of the double, concequently named through the angle of waiting. This must be the foundation of the book and probably its theme. Into the wilderness of a train station named ERO, those two characters bring, eachone, as a justification of their autoexile, the fear… The fear of being required to submit themselves to the ,,cobra’s tamers” and to the ,,dog’s tamers” allows them to occur, as a single way of rescue, either the withdrawal or the uniformisation. Ration carrying spirits, the two characters cannot accept the pact with those wich are already being submitted. In this way, they choose to punish the ruined society wich has been rhinocerizated. So they find the way of overtaking, by the withdrawal into this world deposed of what’s not right. The novel represents, in the same time, a fresco of the social reality before ’89 period. A whole world opens in front of us, a world wich has lost its values, kept under the sign of two of the most powerful weapons: the fear and the terror. In front of them people have lost any chance of fighting. The novel propose a solution to fight with those horrible weapons: the acceptation of the destiny is far more important then the destiny itself.

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