Lo fantástico como vía de supervivencia para Ana Blandiana; vivir, recordar y soñar
The Fantastic as a Way of Survival for Ana Blandiana; Live, Remember and Dream

Author(s): Mylène Mandart
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Blandiana; dream; dicatrship; communism; Romania; tales
Summary/Abstract: Ana Blandiana, an internationally recognized writer, has been an opponent of the dictatorial regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She is a censored poet, she has had to fight to find a way of conveying her words. She has become a symbol of the Resistance, and despite the prohibition she has continued to write; several of her stories and poems are both a reflection and a critique of how she lived under communist totalitarianism. Blandiana finds in writing a way of living. She ties her works to the fantastic genre, which are divided between a dream world and a historical reality. The dream is the place chosen by the writer to be able to express herself freely through the voice of her characters. In addition to the spatial duality, Blandiana chooses to situate her narrations in a temporal duality. The protagonists find themselves immersed in the writer’s own past, and in an eternal present through which she projects her hopes for a better future.

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