RECUPERAREA IDENTITĂŢII PRIN SCRIITURĂ. CONSTANTIN VIRGIL GHEORGHIU, CHEMAT LA INSTANŢA ISTORIEI
Identity recovery through writing. Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, called to the court of history

Summary/Abstract: In Facing the extreme, Tzvetan Todorov considers that the totalitarian camps, the invention of the twentieth century, remain a mark of the memories of that time. By living himself the experience of political prison, the writer Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu is among the first authors who, thanks to the celebrity of his novel, The 25th Hour, can reveal to the whole world the atrocities of an increasingly digital society. In his capacity of “witness”, as Traian Koruga, the alter-ego of the writer in the novel, declares himself, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu feels compelled to seek salvific solutions, when human identity is in danger. To write means to compose a “petition”, with the intention of recovering one’s identity. It must be addressed to the mind, because “all human victories, since the beginning of their existence, have been victories of the soul” (Traian Koruga). The writer’s solutions to save and restore identity are: the consciousness of the origins, the return to infantile purity by means of memories at the centre of which there is an almost immaterial image of the father, in communion with God, by praying, but, moreover, by recording as proofs in the literary creation the atrocities of contemporary society, in which the human being is worth even less than a tool. To resist this gradual deterioration, the human being must arrive at “the eternal hour” and do that successfully, desire to be all the time in the presence of God, with the help of the Liturgy or prayers that break the material limits of suffering. So, the prisoner succeeds to restore the identity by the rebirth of the spirit.

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