MARIN SORESCU’S CONFESSIONAL WRITING
MARIN SORESCU’S CONFESSIONAL WRITING

Summary/Abstract: The poet Marin Sorescu does not extricate himself entirely from the baits of literature in diarism but, aware of their presence, counters them off with irony and self-irony. More than a diarist, the writing self behaves exactly like a character of a novel. This very fluidity through space and time is that of a literary character more than of a diarist’s voice. The narrator re-lives the history of the places he visits just like it was designed for a played part. It is his resort to imagination that helps him overlook the temporal barriers and have a dialogue with vanished people or with fictitious characters. He turns from a spectator into an actor. Sorescu’s confessional writing encumbers a feeling that he must get off the stage, so powerful is the imprint of his inner spectacle. With such an approach, Marin Sorescu puts into a parodic subtle equation the above mentioned diary convention

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