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FAȚA CERNITĂ A LIBERTĂȚII. INTERVIURILE, PORTRETELE ȘI EVOCĂRILE LUI PAVEL CHIHAIA
The bleak face of freedom. The interviews, the portraits and the evocations of Pavel Chihaia

Author(s): Diana Zaharia
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: the lost generation; the literature of trauma; nonliterary texts;

Summary/Abstract: The paper “The bleak face of freedom. The interviews, the portraits and the evocations of Pavel Chihaia” starts from the assumption that Pavel Chihaia, a writer of the lost generation – the generation of the writers who debuted in between 1944–1947 and were forbidden after that – fundamented his literature of trauma on an existence of trauma.So, we tryed to see if trauma, as a major theme in fiction, is reconstituted by the nonliterary texts too, this time as the collective trauma of a generation. The personalities who concerned the writer give a diversity of perspectives, which we also intended to analize. Not at least, we noticed the marks by which the objective writing becomes close to literature.The interviews, the portraits and the evocations reconstruct an existence of trauma in the same measure in which the literature of Pavel Chihaia does that. By considering these texts an integrative part of the literary work, the literary-nonliterary distinction loses its basic meaning at this author.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 31-44
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian