AESTHETIC CONVERGENT FORMULAS OF AUTHENTICITY
AESTHETIC CONVERGENT FORMULAS OF AUTHENTICITY

Summary/Abstract: The theory of authenticity is metamorphosed together with the species to which it is circumscribed, the novel. Depending on the rhythm and nature of the discourse, the genres of the biography are divided into memoirs, autobiography, intimate diary, autobiographical novel, biographical essay, and a method of denying other species. Memoirs / memories are retrospective narratives, do not obey the simultaneity clause (the antimemoirs story is not simultaneous with the narration), are works of old, which have a postumed recipient, the latter being unable to verify the authenticity of the reported events. Another species of the biography - the intimate journal, is distinguished from the very beginning through the “rapid” transcription of the events, the distance between their production and their consignment in writing, even in this case there is a certain mediation given by the impression of the moment. Literary sincerity or authenticity is built on new conventions: the autobiographical investigation (autoanalysis), the discovery of the consciousness of uniqueness and the feeling of inner integrity and lack of false, the centering of that subject to a thorough analysis. In the new novel, the notion of flow of consciousness appears. The English phrase “the stream of consciousness” was first formulated by William James and it is defined by reference to the psychological experience solved as an eternal leak in the inner life of consciousness. Thus, there is a discontinuity of the Romanian time, appealing to the involuntary memory. By making an inventory of the concepts of the term authenticity and outlining the specificity of each one, the features of this notion emerge, as complex as contradictory: unliteraturised confession, subjective experience, the imperative of being yourself, the renunciation of existing literary conventions, the valorisation of the document and intimate journal, sequence of notes, repudiation of the beautiful style, predilection for subjectivized narrative, introspection and self-analysis.

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