Marginalitate şi europenism în proza lui Alexandru Vona
Peripheral and European Layers in Alexandru Vona’s Novel

Summary/Abstract: After he had settled in Paris in 1947, Alexandru Vona (according to the Romanian documents, Alberto Enrique Samuel y Mayer, born in a family whose members were Spanish jews), could have seen his novel published, but the translation made by Claude Sernet (Mihail Cosma) was inadequate. Fragments from the Romanian manuscript were issued in some literary magazines many decades later, in the early 90’s. Mirrored in translations and accompanied by a significant prize, an increasing interest was shown soon after the outlaw’s novel had been brought out. The paper attempts to look at a novel focused on precariouness, contrast and gliding between past and present time, memory and unfolding dreams, or mythical and residual layers. There is a deliberately abstruse dimension in Vona’s novel, which baffles the reader for the very reason that, beyond its authenticism that has turned fantasy into a hybrid reality, a continuous restructuring of identity, social bridges and narrative deployment come into sight.

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