GENURILE BIOGRAFICULUI, ÎNTRE TIMPUL TRĂIRII ȘI TIMPUL MĂRTURISIRII – INVITAȚIE LA RE-LECTURĂ

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Name: Petruța Stan
Affiliation: Profesor dr., Colegiul Național „Nicolae Iorga”, Vălenii de Munte, județul Prahova
Contact: petruta.stan@yahoo.com

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Citation Recommendation: STAN, Petruța, „Genurile biograficului, între timpul trăirii și timpul mărturisirii – invitație la re-lectură”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 98-109. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.10
Titlul: GENURILE BIOGRAFICULUI, ÎNTRE TIMPUL TRĂIRII ȘI TIMPUL MĂRTURISIRII – INVITAȚIE LA RE-LECTURĂ
Title: BIOGRAPHICAL GENRES, BETWEEN THE TIME OF LIVING AND THE TIME OF CONFESSION – AN INVITATION TO RE-READING
Pages: 98-109
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/10_P_Stan.pdf
DOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.10

Abstract: This paper refers to the way in which the critic Eugen Simion customises the diary into a wider and quite problematic category of writing with a biographic nature (character), always placed at the fragile border between clandestinity and publicity, establishing the fact that this type of writing, despite rejecting the literary conventions, builds its own system of rules which makes it functional, turning itself into a “fiction of nonfiction”. We identify a series of essential questions which refer to the necessity of an intimate diary, to its function, to the existence of a poetics of a diary. Simion (re)establishes some concepts related to this kind of writing, and to identifying a relation between the author, the narrator and the characters of a diary. A possible receiver and many types of readers are discovered, and a new mythology is (re)constructed, specific for this taciturn writing, populated with phantasms and “images of the inner self”. Moreover, Eugen Simion makes a list of traumas, be they physical or spiritual, which may lead one to the need of turning oneself into a diarist. The Romanian theorist follows both the evolution of the diarist’s place in the literary system and the evolution of the way in which the diary is received by its readership.

Keywords: diary, function, clause, Eugen Simion, diarist, reader

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