Représentations de la fenêtre dans « La Seconde Chance » de Virgil Gheorghiu
Representations of the window in "The Second Chance" by Virgil Gheorghiu

Author(s): Mirela Drăgoi
Subject(s): Cultural history, Recent History (1900 till today), French Literature, Cultural Essay, Philology
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: interim space; dream vs reality; cultural frontiers; time; threshold;
Summary/Abstract: "The Second Chance" [La Seconde Chance] is the second novel that C. V. Gheorghiu, the Romanian writer of French expression, published in France, after the Second World War. The author considers that the title mirrors perfectly the definition of the exiled and his intention of highlighting the drama of the man that is forced to leave his own country and live in another space - a « second hand life » perceived as a second chance. The space imagined in the narrative is dualistic, with characters pondering between identity and otherness, interior and exterior, the threshold among these two universes being s symbolic of freedom and captivity. This paper has the objective of identifying the meanings that C. V. Gheorghiu attributes to the space of the action and to the cultural content featured by the binary construction of the spatial coordinates.

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