MEMOIRE ET REMEMORATION DANS LE ROMAN « TOATE BUFNIŢELE » DE FILIP FLORIAN
MEMORY AND REMEMORATION IN FILIP FLORIAN'S NOVEL "TOATE BUFNIŢELE"

Summary/Abstract: The modern man’s condition is characterized by his struggling with memory; the modern man wages a war against memory to resume it from the beginning, and herein lies his greatness. In the absence of memory, suffering would be useless and arbitrariness would increase. But the desire to keep or regain memory calls forth recollection and narration, whereas narration claims its many functions: aesthetic, cathartic and therapeutic. All these features are claimed by the act of recollection / narration in the novel “Toate bufniţele” by Filip Florian, issued in Iasi, 2012 and reissued in 2015. The novel was accepted enthusiastically both by the public and literary critics, receiving, among others, the prize for “the best book of the year”, at Gala Bun de Tipar, Literature section. The reading of the novel which reveals the main theme of memory and recollection is suggested by the writer himself in choosing as moto of the novel, the Czech writer, Bohumil Hrabal’s statement in “Cireşele din Praga”: “Remember what I say, Milton, man’s best feature in his memory, you see?” Starting from these premises, the paper aims at the way in which the theme of memory and recollection is built in Filip Florian’s novel, analyzing its functions, narrative technique, osmosis of time plans and individual-history relationship developed by the narrative thread.

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