A monograph of loneliness and feminity
The present study attempts to offer an in-depth analysis of Nicole Valery Grossu, who is under investigation in the period of communism. This study also deals with the description of the system, the transfiguration of suffering, which is the most important effect of life after prison. Telling her experience, Nicole Valery Grossu compares this with a mystical experience. She manages to describe daily prison life, in a story that impresses. Nicole Valery Grossu confesses his mystical experience with a touch of originality and subjectivity. Her book, Bless you, prison…, expresses the feelings of political prisoners in prison memoirs. The purpose of these confessions is to transmit feelings and teachings of the experience to the future generations.
Keywords: investigation, memory, arrest, archives, prison
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2. Ibidem, p.24.
3. Ibidem, p.27.
4. Ibidem, p.29.
5. Ibidem, p.62.
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7. Ibidem, p.120.
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9. Ibidem, p. 53.
10. Ibidem, p. 54.
11. Ibidem, p. 54.
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13. Cicerone Ioniţoiu, op.cit., p. 68.
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15. Ibidem, p.73.
16. Ibidem, p. 110.
17. Ibidem, p. 115.
18. Ibidem, p. 117.
19. Ibidem, p. 92-93.
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