Author(s): Anca Boldea / Language(s): Romanian
Issue: 17/2019
Michel Lobrot defines the reading process as "intellectual structuring work, affective involvement, a desire to communicate." Reading is a very complex act. Her motivations can be distinguished according to the social class, age, the physical state of the reader and the events that have taken place throughout his life. The reading process adapts to the intended purpose (for relaxation, for information), to the nature of the text (poetry, historical novel, art album) and circumstances (tiredness or vigilance, noisy or solitary environment). There are, therefore, countless ways to read: objective (recovering as much information as possible) or projective (restructuring information according to your interests or desiderata), eferent (attention focuses on living itself), linear (by going through the text step by-step, as it develops), exploratory (in a superficial way, in order to get a general idea of the content) or selectively (avoiding redundant or uninteresting material for the reader). Reading a specific text or another may influence destinies, change the perception of a person, overturn a situation that seemed stable. The text of the paper is populated with passages describing the effects of reading on characters from the novels: "Solenoid" by Mircea Cărtărescu, "Maitreyi" by Mircea Eliade, "Love at the time of cholera" and "General in his labyrinth" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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