Poetica spațiului în romanul „Inocenții” de Ioana Pârvulescu - identitate și memorie

Abstract

Inspired by the famous work of Gaston Bachelard, the title of my study is The Poetics of Space in the Novel ‘The Innocents’ by Ioana Pârvulescu - Identity and Memory. I set out to analyze the way in which the space of the house is validated as a symbolic element in the novel’The Innocents’. The main objective was to analyze the relationship between the space of residence and the affective, identity and poetic construction of the narrator-character. I also
aimed to highlight the way in which space becomes a narrative topos of memory and becoming. Ioana Pârvulescu's novel 'Inocenții' allows for a symbolic reading of space, as the entire plot is built around the childhood home, with layers of memory, reverie, playfulness and sacredness. The home on St. John Street (formerly Maiakovski) is not
described only from a topographic point of view, but also emotionally, becoming a character itself. It is the point of convergence of the past, present and future (the latter, in and through fiction). Her native town Brașov, taken 'into possession', as her selfconsciousness and that of the world amplify, becomes a Centrum Mundi, a House.