Déshumanisation et dépersonnalisation en captivité – prise actuelle de l'époque totalitaire

Abstract

The survival of the human being in captivity generates essential mutations, felt either as a self -alienation, as a
liberating compromise, or as an inexorable life failure. Matei Visniec, in the novel ‘Mister K. released’ (2010) and Herta Muller in ‘The Cradle of breath’ (2009) created parables of the totalitarian system. ‘Remembering’ equals to recovering the lost time and regaining the long ago lost and distant paradise, meanwhile, offering the hero the illusion of freedom. The upside down perspective on the relationship word (logos) – life has postmodern origins, by ironically recovering the past, simplifying the speech, valuing clichés and by ostentatiously mythologizing common things. The novel turned into metatext is the salvation through writing of a plain hero, entrapped into memories. The self-reflective text offers the character the illusion of reliving and returning to a voluntary captivity this time, that being the solution of the human resigning himself to history.