The experience and the history transcript
This study aims at identifying the manners of representing history in a space which is protected by the diffuse boundaries of fiction and auto-enunciation, in Mircea Pora’s short prose. The Ethical Authenticity of the author’s transcription of history as it unfolds, testifies to the lucidity, scepticism and critical conscience of the individual who, for years on end, has questioned and has situated himself obliquely, incongruently in relation to the truth of the official discourse proclaimed by the institutions and authorities in charge with the shaping of an image of the national history. Literature as an act of collective memory also becomes, in this case, a personal lesson of survival.
Keywords: ethics of re-writing history, individual memory, history, the poetic of irony, fictional and autobiographical
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1. Zic roman pentru că autorul practică o formulă ce poate deveni un fel de roman-puzzel: prima parte, cea epistolară, cea mai densă de altfel, se risipeşte apoi în proze scurte care, deşi autonome prin titluri aparent ludice şi naive, nu se rup de conţinutul acestei părţi epistolare, dimpotrivă, par nişte atomizări în formule condensate ale parcursului critic-personal prin fluxul istoriei recente şi contemporane.
2 .Mircea Pora, Tour Eiffel, turiştii toamnei, Editura Paralela 45, 2012, p.29.
3. Idem, p.29-30, sublinierile îmi aparţin.
4. Idem, p.56.
5. Virgil Podoabă, Fenomenologia punctului de plecare, Editura Universităţii Transilvania, Braşov, 2008. 6. Rodica Ilie, Ani de pasaj sau o lecţie de supravieţuire, „Cultura”, 05.05.2011.
7. Paul Ricoeur, Memoria, istoria, uitarea, Amarcord, Timişoara, 2001, pp. 116-152
