Seuil de vie, seuil de mort : la parole
Threshold of life, threshold of death: speech

Author(s): Simona Modreanu
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Metaphysics, Romanian Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: tale; threshold; death; time; paradox; speech;
Summary/Abstract: Like the myths, the tales challenge our spirit and a worldview historically based on materialism, on the philosophy of the excluded third, on linear temporality and on submission to the laws of causality. The fairy tales, and this Romanian one in particular - Youth Without Age and Life Without Death -, offer us a way out of our customary reductionism, allowing a holistic and metaphysical approach in the broadest sense. What makes the originality, if not the uniqueness, of this tale is that we are dealing with a triple threshold, or rather with three thresholds.

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