Abstract
In her article "History and Identity in Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing in Romanian" Nicoleta D. Ifrim analyzes Virgil Tănase's confessional and ego-graphic writing in his 2011 Leapșa pe murite (Playing Fetch with Death). Tănase's text is about the individual caught in history and re-writes it post-traumatically from a double perspective: that of the collective memory of totalitarianism and the personal thus functioning as a filtering mechanism for the creation of meta-historical identity. For Tănase, the experience of exile and post-exile, as well as the confrontation with the West legitimizes identity dilemmas and the construction of the individual. The book is representative of imposed exile during the communist period which made Central and East Europeans face their inner torments and revise their identity formation(s).
Recommended Citation
Ifrim, Nicoleta D
"History and Identity in Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing in Romanian."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.1
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2133>
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