Mihaela Noroc and Her View on Women Around the World
Mihaela Noroc and Her View on Women Around the World

Summary/Abstract: Mihaela Noroc’s The Atlas of Beauty is a phenomenon of today’s world. Her endeavour is singular, as she cannot be easily considered as representing one of the traditional types of travel writing: South and West journeys; colonial journeys; symbolic journeys; mythical journeys; or intellectual journeys. She goes for the old-fashioned soul of her ‘models’. She is fascinated by their reality, their humanity, and their strength. The Atlas convinces by its intrinsic un-biased and non-ideological authenticity. In a sense, Mihaela Noroc is a true follower of Madame d’Aulnoy’s literary journeys in Spain in 1691: neither of them passes any judgment on their subject. The Atlas is not an instance of travel for travel’s sake, either. It does not dwell in an idealistic hope that the more we travel the better we connect, and that the more we understand others, the more we understand about ourselves. The picaresque character is given by the fact that the author is somehow cast out of any society, and, therefore, his/her comments contain more truth. The picaroon is alone, trying to make a living in a world that is based on stereotype and indestructible social traditions. Mihaela Noroc is a picaroon, free of prejudices, non-judgmental, and true

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