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HOW TO APPROACH THE NONSPACE THROUGH EXPERIENCE IN EMILE ZOLA'S NOVEL "THE LADIES' PARADISE"

COMMENT APPROCHER LE NON-LIEU PAR LE VÉCU DANS LE ROMAN D‘ÉMILE ZOLA « AU BONHEUR DES DAMES »

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): French / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: nonspace ; Au bonheur des dames (The Ladies’ Paradise); space, psychology ; identity

The place is defined by Michel Foucault from a sociological point of view, Marc Augé interprets it in an anthropological direction, Abraham Moles and Elisabeth Rohmer are interested in the psychology of space. The non-space may become a space as soon as the individual maintains an emotional relationship with it. Any space acquires a psychological value through individual or collective experiences, shows Nathalie Audas following an investigation on the railway station. Marc Augé’s non-places are never passive or devoid of identity, of relational control, of history. On the contrary, they have a cultural identity associated with a psychological man-place connection, be it a transitory but representative place of a mindset, a philosophy, an urban or architectural vision. Non-places are meeting places of individual or collective memory based on the individual or group experiences that have frequently or temporarily inhabited or visited him/them. Our goal is to prove the ambivalence of the non-space concept as seen by Marc Augé in Émile Zola’s novel ”Au bonheur des dames‟ (The Ladies’ Paradise).

Multiple Identities in Dumitru Ţepeneag’s Tetralogy of Exile

Identităţi multiple în tetralogia exilului la Dumitru Ţepeneag

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2013

Keywords: exile; novel; identity; Dumitru Ţepeneag

This paper intends to focus on the multiple identities of a young Romanian writer exiled in Paris that are to be found in his novels like the fictionalization of the biographical I and author’s implications in the text. The primary identity, the cultural-linguistic one fragmentizes by emphasizing on another geo-cultural space and ceaselessly reconstructs through the impact with alterity from the historical chronotope. From a linguistic point of view, it is about an bilingual identity: Romanian-French. At a fictional degree that implies a character with a ambiguous identity, depersonalized, postmodern by a immanent and identitary deconstruction and reconstraction in exile which is transposed through a narrative identity. The narrative identity, on the one hand, follows the insinuating way of the real exile and, on the other hand, it underlines the literary expressions or forms of some Romanian cultural fantasies that are generated by the loss of the primary identity and by the need of the retrieval of the identitary unity before the exile. The identity of the real writer, Dumitru Ţepeneag, modifies in exile because of the dislocation and is expressed by his pseudonyms used for his novels: Dumitru Ţepeneag became Tzepeneag and Pigeon vole is signed with the heteronym Eduard Pastenague. The narrative identity used to fictionalize his own exile is dislocated into multiple characters: the author involved in the text and the relator, the character-actor, embodied in different aspects of exiles. The identity of the Romanian exile comes across with the identities of other exiles from the same ethnic and linguistic space in order to place the reader in front of a truth: „The individual does not live a tragedy by losing his original culture and provided to acquire another” (Tzvetan Todorov, Omul dezrădăcinat).

Trauma and initiation at Norman Manea

Traumă şi iniţiere la Norman Manea

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2012

Keywords: Vintilă Horia; novel; Ovid; exile; initiation; metamorphoses

The paper aims to illustrate the initiatory experience of the poet Ovid, exiled to Tomis, in Dacia, and his spiritual metamorphoses during the exile. Ovid goes through a double initiation, in an unknown geographical area, but also in the Getae-Dacians culture. He discovers in the barbarian territory of the exile the spiritual superiority of a people with a different religion than that of the Ancient Rome: the faith in Zamolxis, the unique god, a religion which precedes the birth of Christianity. The spiritual centre of the world, represented by Ancient Rome, moves to the edge, Dacia. Getae-Dacians’ faith spiritualizes the space, one of the elements that determines a nation’s cultural identity and shape their way of life. The poet’s initiatory way is also a road to himself, where he finds his deep self being and has unit revelation, during the mystical experience from Poiana Mărului. The poet’s repentance, his conversion to Dacians’ religion, is anticipated by travels and discoveries with initiatory value, by signs and premonitions. The poet’s spiritual change occurs due to the loss of faith in Roman gods, of the inner need of metaphysics and due to the confrontation with death under various internal and external facets of otherness.

Janus’ Dark Face or Maleficent Ideology in Vintilă Horia’s Punish Boethius

Le visage sombre de Janus ou le maléfique idéologique dans le roman Persécutez Boèce de Vintilă Horia

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): French / Issue: 23/2012

Keywords: Romanian Literature; Vintilă Horea; Communist Utopia; Ideological Myth; Illusion; Totalitarianism; Terror; Exile.

We intend to deconstruct here the ideological myth of the communist paradise and to illustrate the slide-slip of utopia toward dictatorship in Vintilă Horia’s Persecutaţi-l pe Boeţiu (Persecuting Boeţiu). The novel is a story about totalitarianism and interior exile. The writer presents the inferno of the communist prisons, in which guardians applied physical and mental torture in order to brainwash the convict so as to become a new man, without personality, submissive, that is the enthusiastic and the fortunate man of the communist society. If the ideological illusion of the communist paradise is artificially maintained in order to force a change of mentality in the population, the illusion of love saves the main character of the novel in limit situations. It is through love that the exile spiritually survives the totalitarian inferno.

Vintilă Horia, Ovid’s metamorphoses in his exile at Tomis

Vintilă Horia, metamorfoza lui Ovidiu în exilul tomitan

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Vintilă Horia; novel; Ovid; exile; initiation; metamorphoses

The paper aims to illustrate the initiatory experience of the poet Ovid, exiled to Tomis, in Dacia, and his spiritual metamorphoses during the exile. Ovid goes through a double initiation, in an unknown geographical area, but also in the Getae-Dacians culture. He discovers in the barbarian territory of the exile the spiritual superiority of a people with a different religion than that of the Ancient Rome: the faith in Zamolxis, the unique god, a religion which precedes the birth of Christianity. The spiritual centre of the world, represented by Ancient Rome, moves to the edge, Dacia. Getae-Dacians’ faith spiritualizes the space, one of the elements that determines a nation’s cultural identity and shape their way of life. The poet’s initiatory way is also a road to himself, where he finds his deep self being and has unit revelation, during the mystical experience from Poiana Mărului. The poet’s repentance, his conversion to Dacians’ religion, is anticipated by travels and discoveries with initiatory value, by signs and premonitions. The poet’s spiritual change occurs due to the loss of faith in Roman gods, of the inner need of metaphysics and due to the confrontation with death under various internal and external facets of otherness.

Vintilă Horia, Cavalerul resemnării (The Knight of Resignation).In Exile under the Sign of the Malefic

Vintilă Horia, Cavalerul resemnării. În exil sub semnul maleficului

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: parable; exile; human condition; choice; interferences

Vintilă Horia tackles the history with regard to the origin of evil and individual’s alienation in a similar way to Albert Camus. His novel, The Knight of Resignation, is a parable about totalitarianism, and ideological evil that makes the human being feeling alienated, in a way that is similar to the situations from Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague. In Vintilă Horia’s opinion, the existential evil can be eradicated only through knowledge. The temporary victory against a visible enemy is not essential, but the people’s eliberation from the common threat with dead since it means an eliberation through knowledge meant to eliminate the source of evil inside the human being, and not its forms. In his novel, The Plague, Albert Camus offers a pragmatic solution against the evil, which is the action that gives sense to existence in an universe where the human being is defined through the act itself, and voluntarily action where the Christian morality does not exist. As far as Vintilă Horia’s work is concerned, the interior metamorphosis existes under the auspices of the Christian morality, and the ideological evil, the tyranny of empires are all consequences of the lost of faith. The communist and nazist hell generated by ideologies brings forward the awareness of a permanent danger of re-activating the evil in the world and the necessity to erradicate its source in order to help peoples to live their life in freedom. This vision explains the philosophy of resignation defended by Horia’s hero. Despite this attitude of initial resignation, Radu-Negru becomes a fighter in the end since he fights for a collective destiny, and not as individual as he is considered in the beginning of the work. Before the moral evil, de-humanization through the mutilation of prisoners’ consciousness meant with a view of transforming the traitors and tortionaries of the power, the exiled prince comes back to finally defend the eternal values of the Romanian identitary space, and the ancient heroes who do not give up in front of danger. The final option of Horia’s hero, the common cause of a nation that rebells itself against the oppression, is similar to the one of Camus’s heroes.

Book-Review to: CONSTANTIN CUBLEȘAN, Contemplând eternitatea, Casa Cărții de Știință, Cluj- Napoca, 2015, 56 p.

Recenzie la: CONSTANTIN CUBLEȘAN, Contemplând eternitatea, Casa Cărții de Știință, Cluj- Napoca, 2015, 56 p.

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 07/2015

CONSTANTIN CUBLEȘAN, Contemplând eternitatea, Casa Cărții de Știință, Cluj- Napoca, 2015, 56 p.

Myth and history in Vintilă Horia’s novels

Mit şi istorie în romanele lui Vintilă Horia

Author(s): Sofia Sonia Elvireanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: Vintilă Horia; novel; history; myth; identity

The implication of history in fiction has multiple motivations. It thus can reconstitute an epoch/ an exemplary destiny/ a major event based on documents serving to understand the past (the historical novel); it can represent a redeeming of identity in the novels of personal memory (testimonial novel, autofiction, novel journal), or a coded historical testimony about a forbidden present (the parable novel). Christine Di Benedetto identifies three possibilities of integrating history in a novel: history as a decorum, the novel based on memory, the refusal of history , a form of escapismo, of non implication, a refusal to be engaged, characterizing the postmodernism. From this perspective, Vintilă Horia’s novels may be classified in the first category, namely history as a decorum. The Romanian writer does not create historical novels, history only represents the background on which the destinies of his characters are projected, as many alter egos meant to underline a thinking based on universality, with its philosophical, aesthetic, religious, scientific spirituality. The novelist acknowledges in his Jurnalul unui ţăran de la Dunăre (Journal of a Danubian peasant) that his novels are “deeply metaphyisical”, history in itself serving as a cover. The author is not interested in chronology, historical times are superposed on the volute of an infinite temporality, the real/invented characters become the instruments leading to an ontological reflection. The Romanian history and myths integrated in his novels are the expression of his cultural identity.

India in Mircea Eliade's vision

India în viziunea lui Mircea Eliade

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: Mircea Eliade; colonial India; Memoirs; Erotic Mystic

Exotism is one of the blue prints of European literature in the 20th century, says Jean-Marc Moura in La littérature des lointains. Histoire de l'exotisme européen au XXe siècle. (Moura 1). He defines this desire of the other as “the totality of Europe’s debt to other cultures” (Halen: web). Thereby he acknowledges the permanent change of Europe’s literary map though the integration of other cultures. Exotism equals afavourable or desirous perception of alteriy. This paper sets exotism in polarity to access to India as to an imagined community, pointing to orientalist Mircea Eliade, historian of religions, as an example in point.

SF literature as a way of knowing the science and mentality of an epoch: Rodica-Gabriela Chira, Autres Mondes. Approches Science-Fiction

Literatura sf ca modalitate de cunoaștere a științei și mentalității unei epoci: Rodica-Gabriela Chira, Autres Mondes. Approches Science-Fiction

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: science-fiction literature; burlesque; intertextuality; interdisciplinarity; utopia and dystopia

The book brings together fifteen unequal size studies on science fiction literature. From various angles – past-present connections, games of the imagination through speculative fiction or science fantasy, comic and science-fiction, the sacred and science fiction, utopia and dystopia, machinery and science fiction, the interdisciplinary - a couple of novels, short stories and a SF poem belonging to authors coming from the French, English, American and Romanian spaces are analyzed. In chronological order, these authors are: Cyrano de Bergerac, Louis Desnoyers, Jules Verne, Edwin A. Abbott, Philip José Farmer, Jacques Sternberg, Stefan Wul, Constantin Cubleşan, Ayerdhal, Suzanne Collins, Serge Lehman, Lucian -Dragoş Bogdan. The volume offers personal interpretations with the intention to show there is no break between the past and the present, the evolution of humanity being framed in a perpetual flow; it also shows that the possibility of finding the whole in the parts and the parts in the whole has existed forever, the forms of awareness being adapted to each epoch.

THE RETURN TO ITHACA IN THE EXILE LITERATURE

ÎNTOARCEREA LA ITHACA ÎN LITERATURA EXILULUI

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: novel; exile; Ithaca; nostalgia; returning

The exile of the 20th century, a new Odisius, reiterates in another historical time the Homeric Myth of Returning caused by the nostalgia for the Homeland. The Returning Home myth corresponds to the 3rd Category of Time as it is illustrated by the theory of journey by Normand Doiron. It is preceded by the departure and the periplus to another space. The departure means an rupture of identity, detaching from a physical and an emotional space, a geo-socio-cultural known territory and in the same time it signifies a plunge in the unkown. The new space determines the process of adaptation which means an identitary reconstruction, bilingualism, partial integration. Moreover, The Returning Home represents a confrontation with Ithaca, with the self-present: both the reclaiming of the ancestral roots and of the lost identity by recognising the matricial space, the reconstruction of the community connections as well as the the emotional and family ones. Nevertheless, it also means reclaiming of an unlived period of life spent far away from the dear ones and the reintegration in the new Ithaca. After all the attempts of recognition which are similarly to those that can be found in Homer’s Odysseys, the exile discovers the alienation from his homeland modified by the passing of time. The exile also finds out self-alienation that occured before the period of exile that he can recuperate only mentally and emotional. The bliss of returning to Ithaca transforms itself in a totally failure, a great deception that generates the returning in the adoptitve homeland. We will illustrate The Myth of Returning in Ithaca in several novels that fictionalize the real returning of the writer from exile in his native country and also the impossibility to reintegrate in the real life.

HYBRID IDENTITIES IN THE NOVELS OF DUMITRU ŢEPENEAG

IDENTITĂŢI HIBRIDE ÎN ROMANELE LUI DUMITRU ŢEPENEAG

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 8/2017

Keywords: Dumitru Tsepeneag; novel; exile; hybrid identity;

Through his name and writings, Dumitru Tsepeneag highlights his hybrid identity. He publishes his novels under the family name of Ţepeneag, Tsepeneag and Pastenaque, a pseudonym invented in order to sign Pigeon flies. This family name is fictionalized through a homonym character in the novel Pont des Arts. The literary historian Mircea Anghelescu states that the game of heteronyms in the building of the writer’s identity testifies of his cultural identity. Laura Pavel justifies them through his hybrid identity. The drama of the passage from the Romanian to the French identity, a process of mental, emotional and linguistic alienation, is expressed in Le mot sablier through bilingual writing. His characters also have hybrid identities reflected in their name and social status, invented in function of the circumstances. The fictional identity is obliterated in the oneiric, is degraded in a hybrid shape of a human-animal. The fragmentation of the self in exile engenders paradisiac or grotesque oneiric projections, representations of the other to be found in any protean self and manifests itself in dreams through zoomorphic creatures, an animal double, the animist part of the self. Individual loss of personality is anticipated by the oneiric degradation in bizarre characters of the unreal capable of creating the junction between real and unreal through hybridation. DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2017.8.6

THE ORPHIC MYTH IN MARIAN DRĂGHICI’S LYRICS

MITUL LUI ORFEU ÎN LIRICA LUI MARIAN DRĂGHICI

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 7/2016

Keywords: poetry; Marian Drăghici; myth; Orpheus; poetic art;

In Ancient Greece, the Orphic doctrine has the myth of Orpheus as a starting point, thus anticipating the constitution of Greek philosophy and poetics. Plato’s dialogs, Aristotle’s Metaphysics and Poetics, even Christianism originate in the Orphism. Orpheus was endowed by Appollo, the deity of the arts, with a divine lute and the gift of poetry and song, symbols of universal harmony, thus serving the creative Logos. This mythological character also is the archetype of the Poet with a tragic destiny as well as of Love. Orphic elements are to be discovered at the great lyrical creators of all times, from Greek and Roman Antiquity (Homer, Horatius, Virgil) up to our century. Poets have found in the Orphism their poetic substance, a theory on the arts or a philosophy of life, the cult of perfection by following Orphic incantations, models of sacred poetry and the art of verse writing. Educated in the western model of knowledge, through German and French sources, acknowledging the influence of Goethe, Rilke, Trakl, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Valéry, Marian Drăghici is attracted by the high level poetry coming from a real talent. Through his poetic creed, he ranges in the Orphic spheres. My paper’s aim is to illustrate the Orphic myth of creation and creator in Marian Drăghici’s lyrics, through the anthology lumină, încet (light, slow), a real and particular ars poetica. The main obesssion of the poet is the act of creation, the core or his poems conceived as poetic arts with an aesthetic dominant. The poet is seen as the most creative, original and profound author of poetic arts in contemporary poetry, tending towards a ”total” poetic art. DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2016.7.5

THE REWRITING OF THE HOMERIC MYTH IN MILAN KUNDERA’S NOVEL “THE IGNORANCE”

RESCRIEREA MITULUI HOMERIC LA MILAN KUNDERA

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 6/2015

Keywords: Kundera; Ignorance; mythe homérique; réécriture; exil;

Recontextualisés et repensés, les grands récits et les mythes fondateurs deviennent dans le postmodernisme un prétexte pour s’interroger sur les origines et l’identité. Leur réécriture ouvre de multiples perspectives au roman, surtout au niveau narratif. C’est le retour au plaisir du récit, mais à voix multiples, à la mise en abîme du récit, le plus souvent parodique, dans l’intention des écrivains de déconstruire le mythe et de le reconstruire à leur manière, en prenant distance par rapport aux représentations connues et en s’offrant la liberté du jeu sans contraintes, une caractéristique du postmodernisme. Un nouveau message et une nouvelle perspective sont livrés au lecteur dans l’hypertexte qui réactualise le texte antérieur, l’hypotexte, dans un contexte historique bien différent.Nous nous proposant d’analyser dans le roman l’Ignorance de Milan Kundera la reprise du mythe du grand retour, de voire comment il débouche vers le nouveau mythe de l’émigrant, de retour dans son pays d’origine après la chute du communisme en Europe. DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2015.6.7

Relationships Established Between the Characters in the Novel. The Writer and His Translator through E. T. Hall’s Proxemics

Les relations entre les personnages romanesques. L’écrivain et son traducteur par la proxémique de E. T. Hall

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): French / Issue: 9/2018

Keywords: Dumitru Tsepeneag; novel; exile; hybrid identity;

Through his name and writings, Dumitru Tsepeneag highlights his hybrid identity. He publishes his novels under the family name of Ţepeneag, Tsepeneag and Pastenaque, a pseudonym invented in order to sign “Pigeon flies”. This family name is fictionalized through a homonym character in the novel “Pont des Arts”. The literary historian Mircea Anghelescu states that the game of heteronyms in building the writer’s identity testifies of his cultural identity. Laura Pavel justifies them through his hybrid identity. The drama of the passage from the Romanian to the French identity, a process of mental, emotional and linguistic alienation, is expressed in “Le mot sablier” through bilingual writing. His characters also have hybrid identities reflected in their name and social status, invented in function of the circumstances. The fictional identity is obliterated in the oneiric, is degraded in a hybrid shape of a human-animal. The fragmentation of the self in exile engenders paradisiac or grotesque oneiric projections, representations of the other to be found in any protean self and manifests itself in dreams through zoomorphic creatures, an animal double, the animist part of the self. Individual loss of personality is anticipated by the oneiric degradation in bizarre characters of the unreal capable of creating the junction between real and unreal through hybridation.

Books on the table

Cu cărțile pe masă

Author(s): Adrian Diac,Iulian Damacus,Angela Nache-Mamier,Florina Georgiana Olaru,Alexandra Cordoș,SONIA ELVIREANU,Florin Cornel Popovici / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 01-02/2018

Keywords: Romanian contemporary literature;poetry; short story, novel;

This section contains a number of reviews on books recently published.

Book review

Cronica literară

Author(s): Al. Cistelecan,Mihnea Bâlici,Ioana Boștenaru,Călin Crăciun,Cristina Timar,Nina Corcinschi,SONIA ELVIREANU,Andreea Pop,Alex Cistelecan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2020

Keywords: literary criticism; Romanian;contemporary;literature;

Book reviews written by Romanian literary critics.

About the lyrics of Adrian Alui Gheorghe

Lirica lui Adrian Alui Gheorghe

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 12/2021

Keywords: Adrian Alui Gheorghe; reflexive lyricism; the 1980’s poets, postmodernism; epical lyricism;skepticism;

In decrypting Adrian Alui Gheorghe’s lyrics (a poet of the 1980s), we discover a romantic nucleus and pathos, as well as a postmodernist technique. His poetic debut takes place in 1989, under the burden of a serious communist censorship. With an elegiac basis, his poetry does not blend with the textualism of the poets in Bucharest or with the western biographical style through which the 1980’s poets were trying to reconnect themselves with the western lyricism by breaking the official canon. Alui Gheorghe’s poetry focalizes his lyrics on the society-poetry-divinity relationship. The seriousness of his lyrical discourse is attenuated by a ludic attitude, by the humor, a humor specific to his nature, manifested through irony and parody. His epical lyricism, visible from the very beginning, together with the dramatization, both in unison with the poet’s intention to banter reality in a skeptical vision, represent a constant of his creation.

Feminine poetry-directions and trends

Poezia feminină-direcții și tendințe

Author(s): SONIA ELVIREANU,Miruna Vlada,Alina Purcaru,Flavia Adam,Gabriela Feceoru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 10-11/2022

Keywords: Poems; Sonia Elvireanu; Miruna Vlada; Alina Purcaru; Flavia Adam; Gabriela Feceoru;

Poems by: Sonia Elvireanu - "Sub călcâiul lui Sappho", "Vocile", "Rostirea tăcerii", "Smochinul", "Liniște vătuită", "Piatră de hotar", "Pe o piatră cândva vorbitoare". Miruna Vlada - "Testate în laborator", "Mutația Delta 32", "Obezitate informațională", " Baby Terminator". Alina Purcaru - "Adăpost", "Vedere din templu ", "Mozaic. Despre artă ", "Știi ". Flavia Adam - "burnout", "o rană mai veche", "ce nu ați zice despre mine", "penurie", "cu fața spre nord", "Camellia sinensis", "deșertăciune", "ex nihilo nihil fit", "Muntele Sfânt", "poem în fața mării". Gabriela Feceoru - "unde e acasă?", "casa voastră va fi pe Pământ", "niciodată acasă", "ambarcațiune".