Romanul Divinatorii de MARGARET LAURENCE – o capodoperă a literaturii canadiene
The Diviners-a Masterpiece of Canadian Literature

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to set off the complexity of the novel’s narrative structure and its ideas showinmg that it is buil;t on the archetypal pattern of theprotagonist’s external and internal quest for identity. Morag Gunnis a forty-seven year old writer asnd mother of eifhteen-year old daughter, Pique.The primary action begins with Pique’s flight from home, a event that triggers off Morag’s retrospective her memories, which revelas to her the parrallelism between herlife’s search and that of her daughter;s , conclusion which she reaches the autumn of the same year.The author shows how through/ association with present incidentsthe primary narrative embeds events that conjure up the picture of Morag’s childhood, teen age and youth, drawing up the portrait of a Canadian woman artist.Morag realizes in retrospect that her options have determined her present identity, which the redear may see as a triple paradigm, that of modern woman,that of a postmodern artist and that of conteporary Canada.

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