Fantastic, identitate și universalitate în proza Gabrielei Melinescu

Fantastic, identity and universality in the prose of Gabriela Melinescu

Abstract

        Within the landscape of post-war Romanian literature, in which the works of some great writers were either enslaved to the communist regime, becoming instruments of the new ideology, or declared manifestos, written in a relationship of hostility or indifference towards this period that made many writers choose the path of exile, the work of Gabriela Melinescu, who in 1975 chooses to settle in Sweden, has become, both for unskilled readers and for exegetes, a labyrinth of metaphors and parables, a mosaic of her deepest experiences, to which her generosity makes us witnesses, confronting us with an increasingly complex and surprising hermeneutics. The author managed to transform the insignificant
elements of existence into significant ones, showing, through her novels and short stories, but also through her journal, that the true meaning of existence must be sought in the seemingly insignificant aspects of life. What matters is not the extraordinary, but the events in which the characters are made to act, which, at a first reading, appear to be trivial, insignificant, but whose understanding entails an approved training of specialized critical thinking and analysis.