Spațiul în romanul Miruna, o poveste de Bogdan Suceavă: construcție și semnificații

Abstract

Bogdan Suceavă is a contemporary Romanian writer who teaches mathematics at California State University. His oeuvre includes novels that are striking both in their narrative style and in their thematic diversity. This paper analyses the construction and the functions of the space in the novel Miruna, a tale, in wich Traian, the narrator, tells the stories told by his grandfather, through which a new spatial configuration of the village emerges, a village described as a territory that eludes conventional categorization, where people with unusual powers live
unaffected by the passage of time. Space is an essential element of the narrative, representing a space that shapes identity and facilitating the initiation into the art of storytelling. By following the key elements of the fictionalized space and analising the narrative functionality and its symbolic meanings, the paper highlights the way the multifunctional space emerges as an essential element in deciphering the hidden aspects of the epic universe created by Bogdan Suceavă, revealing the fabulous world of the village Valea Rea, where stories emerge, in
which personal and collective memory, traditions, legends, myths and fairytales are
interspersed and reality and fantasy intermingle.