GLI SPAZI SIMBOLICI E FANTASTICI NELLE PROSE DI ANA BLANDIANA
SYMBOLIC AND FANTASTIC SPACES IN THE PROSE OF ANA BLANDIANA

Summary/Abstract: Ana Blandiana belongs to the 1960 generation of the Romanian literature. The refined transfiguration of the reality of totalitarianism in delicate poetic representations and the note of subversiveness in her prose are distinct qualities of her writings. This article examines how epic spaces configured by Ana Blandiana convey, in her prose, a sense of strangeness, fantastic and absurd. The disintegration of true-to-life dimensions and the glissade of spaces into the unreal are designed to generate terror and uncertainty for the consciences in conflict with the order imposed by totalitarian power. This analysis wades into the ambiguous indwelling (“The Butterfly Chapel”, “The Theater Lesson”), into the labyrinth city (“Dear Scarecrows”), into the artificial island (“Report”), into the desert plain (“Past Projects”) and into the rehabilitation center of dissidents (“The Drawer with Applauses”).

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