Paralaxa continuității în spațiul canadian: Divinatorii de Margaret Laurence
The Parallax of Continuity in the Canadian space. The Divinors by Margaret Laurence

Summary/Abstract: “The Diviners” is the final and sovereign piece in Laurence’s Manawaka cycle. To think of Laurence’s novel in terms of what is peculiarly Canadian about it, brings forth the idea of identity and the compulsive concern with what can be generally denominated as survival, understood both in the sense of struggle towards the preservation of the self in a world perceived if not as hostile, at least as tough and contrary to individual interests or aspirations; the continuity of the tribe, of the people, within a physical geography; and in the sense of cultural endurance, conservation of the ancestors’ arsenal of spiritual values, their moral legacy. Margaret Laurence’s novel is not exempt from the “obsessions” which haunt the Canadian collective consciousness.

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