Evadarea în scriitură: tipuri de discurs palerian în epoca antedecembristă

Abstract

The refuge in writing is dictated by the writer’s worry to come out of the terror of personal obsession (the prediction that he would die at 44), the totalitarian daily occurence and the entering under the sign of destiny forged by inner strength and assuming it. Octavian Paler’s works swing between two trends: mythology and autobiography. Although he goes towards literature through Blaga’s poetry influence (The Shadow of Words ‐ 1970), then he will move to the essay, publishing books hard to fit into a specific genre (essay, memoirs), structuring gradually on a ʺPaler genre ‐ one that is unmistakable and impossible to imitateʺ (Mircea Iorgulescu). His work does not go within a single genre, it ranges from narrative prose to essays or ideas. It addresses several literary formulas: a journey diary, debate, controversy, correspondence, mem oirs, a work of imagination – the parabolic novel, the essay novel (the two novels can be approached from several perspectives: reading in an autobiographical grid, political allegory about totalitarian worlds, a parable of the human condition). In all the works of the same fore‐December era it looks like constant the same search towards himself through self confessions and meditations. In this era, the confession is indirect and erudite, achieved through fiction or art critics. The type of fore‐ December era writing abounds in dissimulative strategies, opposite to the direct
confession specific to the post‐December era