LES MEMOIRES DE LENA CONSTANTE ET L’EXIL AU LABYRINTHE
THE MEMOIRS OF LENA CONSTANTE AND THE EXILE IN THE LABYRINTH

Summary/Abstract: In the privileged space of the myths, Minos, the legendary king of Crete, captures the Minotaurus in a famous palace – a creation of Dedalus – which represents the primary model of the labyrinth and which implicitly determined, in the cultural history, a consacrated interception of this symbol, in its sense of space, recognizable in the terms of a configuration and of a peculiar dimension. The labyrinth, however, repeatedly abandons the condition of space, similar to the pendulum that can be detected (every time) in a different hypostasis within the successive becomings of its course. In this matter, distinct variants of the existence of the labyrinth can be evoked, diachronically catalogued by Paolo Santarcangeli (the dream, the game, the clothing, the poem, etc.) and can constitute the object of our concerns, through their own pendulation in the memoirs of Lena Constante. Above all, the labyrinth establishes itself, both in Evadarea tăcută and in Evadarea imposibilă , as a configurative model, at distinct levels of form and content. This materializes itself not only as a space of the memoirs (through the "sensorial", thus fragmentary and incongruent representations of the cell), but also - within our subsequent approaches of the motif – at the level of temporality or of discursivity (whose sequencer solution is, after all, the escape).

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