Open AccessMemories as the Articulation of Being in Vladimir Besleaga’s Novels
Author(s) -
Nadejda Ivanov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
philologia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-3717
pISSN - 1857-4300
DOI - 10.52505/1857-4300.2021.3(315).03
Subject(s) - consciousness , destiny (iss module) , intuition , feeling , anamnesis , articulation (sociology) , identity (music) , aesthetics , literature , personal identity , psychoanalysis , philosophy , psychology , self , epistemology , art , law , physics , astronomy , politics , political science
This article analyzes the problem of recovering personal and cultural identity of the characters in Vladimir Besleaga's novels Zbor frânt (Broken Flight) and Viața și moartea nefericitului Filimon (The Life and Death of the Unfortunate Filimon). The main role in the journey of self-search belongs to the involuntary memory and intuition, which drive the protagonists through a series of events, the ones from the bitter, disturbing past, to finally discovering the magical dimension of childhood, revealing mysteries about one's own split up destiny. Memories and the anamnesis process represent, therefore, the divine act of restoring the primordial world, of uttering the being and resurrecting the mankurt to the conscious, free and full life. Beyond the hostile reality of the regime, both Isai and Filimon reveal unique experiences and feelings from the labyrinth of their own consciousness, which bring them closer to the essence of existence.