Pădurea spânzuraţilor – Multiculturalismul unui spaţiu literar traumatizant
The Forest of the Hanged: the Multiculturalism of a Literary Traumatic Space

Summary/Abstract: The present paper proposes the achievement of a theoretical construct, analyzing some of the most defining aspects, such as: multiculturalism, interculturality, identity, alterity, fiction, testimony, document, myth of national consciousness. This article has, at least, two main aims: on the one hand, it is a retrospective research and aesthetic recovery of a traumatic time, The First World War, and also of a tragical space, Transilvania, regarding a reference novel of the genre: Forest of the Hanged by romanian writer, Liviu Rebreanu, and, on the other hand, the reavelig of some critical concepts able to emphasize the need for an updated approach for a way to understanding the reporting of contemporary man to a tragic period and to a cosmopolitan space belonging to the Habsburg Empire. This area of complementarity, plurality and difference, in which the ultimate ethnic conflict of the old world, of Europe s different nations, reached in the modern age in the reigning moments of their redefinition, will find, in Forest of the Hanged a very rich and diverse mythological substrate.

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