OCTAVIAN PALER – INNER JOURNEYS, TRAVELLING IN TIME
OCTAVIAN PALER – INNER JOURNEYS, TRAVELLING IN TIME
Author(s): Lidia Ghiulai Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: mythological time; inner time; sacred time; historical/ chronological time; exterior time; profane time; inner journey; travelling in time; the fall in time; the return to myth
Summary/Abstract: The essay brings in discussion the concept of time as it is seen by Octavian Paler in all his literary works. Any other delimitation can be contained in these two: the chronological and mythological, according Paler’s ideas. Of course, these two notions will bring up some other terms as the sacred and profane time, the exterior and the interior time and the notion of destiny as opposed at that of time per se. Time is a wizard that plays with us as long as we do not understand that we can also trick – and treat – the time through our inner journeys, sincethey are not restrained by the time. It is only within this inner land that we may claim some powers over time.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Oradea Fascicula Limba si Literatura Română (ALLRO)
- Issue Year: 19/2012
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 81-87
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
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