Călătorind dinspre lume spre sine – Marin Sorescu în patru continente. Jurnal inedit II – Jurnal berlinez
Călătorind dinspre lume spre sine – Marin Sorescu în patru continente. Jurnal inedit II – Jurnal berlinez

Summary/Abstract: A poet, essayist, playwright and prose writer, Marin Sorescu publishes in 1999 the volume Jurnal. Romanul călătoriilor (A Diary. The Novel of Travels), although he openly rejects the diary “as a direct authorial expression and as a bastard genre” without rules. The volume is soon followed by Marin Sorescuînpatrucontinente.Jurnal II. Inedit(Marin Sorescu on Four Continents. Diary II. Unpublished), published by George Sorescu, who retraces Sorescu’s voyages from illustrations and travel notes found in the writer’s notebooks. Fascinated with travel, Sorescuis fond of describing settings that he did not actually see but to which he travelled in his imagination. The volume consists of a Berlin diary (1973-1974) and a number of telegraphic notes from England, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Greece, etc. Although he is not interested in “the diary become literature”, promising that, provided that he writes one, it would be “salty” - he declares an adept of TituMaiorescu’s diary, a telegraphic form which records numerous details – his writing is, nevertheless,loaded with the feelings of a curious traveller, haunted by anxieties, who turns his experience into endless, tireless knowledge, being constantly on an initiatory journey. The discovery of a new cultural space makes him also discover a new self within. This raises the question as to whether are there two entities in the diary, a foregrounded one, as an assumed authorial mark, and another one to be read between the lines, or whether the authors identity is recomposed behind the iciness of this diarist.

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