Construcții ale memoriei. Practici memoriale la Vasile Alecsandri
Memory constructs. Memorial practices at Vasile Alecsandri

Summary/Abstract: In his numerous pieces of prose, Vasile Alecsandri reveals his profile of a writer, traveller and memoirist. Describing places, sceneries and characters, the writer actually performs an exercise of evoking his owntravel memories. In his travel notes, portrayals or publicist texts, the author combines the reality of the describedfacts with fiction, always in different proportions. Otherwise stated, these types of texts are generic platforms onwhich the writer hides the fictional structures meant to captivate the reader. In the texts to which we are going torefer in the paper, Vasile Alecsandri exploits various pictures, ideas, aesthetic and ideological codes, and notes,thus recreating his travel memories. Even though it has received less attention on part of Romanian literary critics,Alecsandri’s prose deserves to be explored since it undoubtedly completes the artistic profile of the writer. Despitethe fact that we are talking about marginal epic literary pieces written by Alecsandri, it can be included in therange of the greatest memoirs from Romania and at the international level.

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