Mémoire et construction identitaire dans le roman de Margareta Miller-Verghy, "Une âme s'ouvre à la vie. Blandine"
Memory and identity construction in Margareta Miller-Verghy’s novel, "A soul opens to life. Blandine"

Summary/Abstract: Margareta Miller-Verghy is a very little-known writer who published three novels in her lifetime. Published posthumously, translated into Romanian by Emilia St. Milicescu, Une âme s’ouvre à la vie. Blandine is an autobiographical novel that retains the stages of the moral and spiritual formation of the heroine, Blandine, an alter-ego of the author. Through the path of life, Blandine continually strive to cross its limits, implementing an inventory of methods and processes to arrive at the “high level” of virtue. This journey is in fact a journey to oneself that assumes a deep ability to introspection based on a continual reassessment of personality from the perspective of previous self. The Narrator manages to judge herself in the mirror of time and to establish, despite the dissolvating action of time, the unity of her individuality. For Margareta Miller-Verghy’ heroine what represents the constant of her life is the ideal of perfection to which she can only access by an ascetic life, a life that implies many renunciations. This ability to “live synthetically” is in fact the ability to suppress any conflict between past, present and future, notions that all human existence attaches to and access to “inner time” that exceeds history. Thus, through the life experiences that she lives and at the same time she tells, she is only heading towards wisdom. His approach is comparable to that of a pilgrim in search of a promised land.

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