A ’’Jurnalul Suedez” al Gabrielei Melinescu, între obsesie şi luciditate

Abstract

The confessional literature of Romanian writers, who, out of ideological or personal reasons were forced to live in exile, cannot exclude the five volumes of "Swedish Journal ", written by Gabriela Melinescu which, although insufficiently analyzed by entitled critics, stand out as striking diaristiclandmarks of originality and intimacy. Almost obsessively approaching universal themes such as love, death, dreams, in a deeply personal way, through the means of introspection of an almost painful sincerity, the diary of this writer who settled in Sweden starting with 1975 engages the reader into a process of participatory decoding of the writer's soul, permanently tortured by memories and troubling connections with the past from the communist period, in which the security apparatus was on the trail of undesirable writers, she among them and also very close to the poet Nichita Stănescu, who was also into the security visor.