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Alexei Marinat – percepţia spaţiului în autobiografia detenţiei [Articol]
(2020) Melnic, Svetlana
Instaurarea regimului comunist în Basarabia şi căderea ulterioară a Cortinei de fier determină autorul Alexei Marinat să-şi consemneze memoriile de detenție. Central pentru acest tip de naraţiune autobiografică modernă devine „eul” în devenire pe traiectoria vieții. Memorialistul face apel la instrumentele autobiografiei pentru a-şi reafirma „prezenţa” în viaţă şi istorie, în timp ce luptă să supravieţuiască uitării şi dezumanizării generate de regimul torționar. Vizualizarea autobiografiei ca o actorie şi vorbire în absenţă este relevantă, din punctul nostru de vedere, atunci când este aplicată memoriilor autorului basarabean, care pot fi evaluate drept o veritabilă autobiografie a detenţiei, în care „spațiul” şi „locul” au un rol fundamental în conturarea identităţii narative a autorului.
Alexei Marinat: Etica confesiunii şi memoria ca mărturisire [Articol]
(USARB, 2020) Melnic, Svetlana
If, after the 1990s, the biographical literature in Bessarabia has registered a comprehensive success in the confessions of concentration experiences, then the ontological value of autobiography as a literary genre is affirmed much earlier, with the publication of Philippe Lejeune’s essay – “The Autobiographical Pact”. The present study represents a modest review of contemporary autobiographical theory and criticism, the emphasis being placed on evoking the autobiographical pact and the relational self, which, compared to the study of J. Starobinski, will illustrate the ethical relationship between narration and autobiography. Due to the vigilant cordiality pact and the testamentary character of Alexei Marinat’s memoirs, the latter provide the opportunity for a detailed analysis of self-awareness, which falls under the spectrum of the prison space, thus becoming an element of the paradigm of the ethical pact between the memorialist and the community. The memory, in turn, is represented to Alexei Marinat as a good of the whole community, the sense of memory existence being a relational one, manifested in the act of confession itself. Thus, the confession of the concentration experience for the diarist represents the existential responsibility and the ethical pact with oneself, with the whole community.
Alexei Marinat: nevoia conservării memoriei Gulagului [Articol]
(USARB, 2022) Melnic, Svetlana
The study reveals the increased interest in digitized memoirs and diaries, presenting the various forms in which the confessional literature of detention is circulated through new electronic and multimedia technologies. Special attention is paid to preserving traumatic memory in its original form, rehabilitating the collective memory of individuals under the oppressive Soviet regime, and reflecting the concepts of trans media storytelling and digital humanities. Essentially, nothing can more successfully combine the strengths of research practices in history, memorial studies, and computational linguistics than digital humanities, which make available to the general public a fundamental approach to the research and critical study of Gulag literature. From the point of view of the materialization of the narrative and the narrative flow, the perspective through which we examine the relationship between Alexei Marinat’s memoirs and digital technology is that of digital humanities, which engages, in addition to the critical practice of contextualizing the text, the exercise of textualizing the context, reading the events of history and culture, as part of literary and artistic production. In this context, digital technologies, along with the increased availability of electronic storage media, have allowed the Bessarabian memorialist to digitize a consistent page from the vast history and literature of Gulag detention.
Alexei Marinat: Recuperarea memoriei colective în jurnalul „Eu şi lumea" [Articol]
(USARB, 2018) Melnic, Svetlana
Perceived through the lenses of torture and incarceration of the author, Alexei Marinat’s confessional literature provides the reader with a legacy of the reconstitution of Gulag reality, the right to freedom and to remembrance. The memoirs of the diarist A. Marinat are a form of autobiographical writing that records multiple forms of collective torture to gain confession about the experience of the diarist while under the regime of terror. Author’s testimonies tend to illustrate the full extent of alienation from the point of view of a survivor who managed to record the terrible realities of communist persecution, recovering collective memory and acting as a true advocate of the individuals who suffered from this oppressive regime. The statement of the well-known historian Pierre Nora stating that memory is blind to all but the group it binds tends to support the relevance of collective memory, exploring the right of confessional literature to be considered a rich documentary source, a traumatic experience common to a generation of political prisoners and dissidents.
Alexei Marinat: The cathartic function of confession in the diary ”Me and the world” [Articol]
(USARB, 2020) Melnic, Svetlana
Writing memoirs constituted the most eruptive phenomenon immediately after 1989, the fall of communism being followed, in terms of literature, but also extraliterary, as a documentary and moral dimension. For Alexei Marinat, the reclusion diary ―Me and the World‖ is not only a way to share the common experience of a cursed society, but also to create a fa-vourable space in which faith and pain can be shared. These confessions, full of candour and simplicity, offer not only public access to a private space, but also allow the diarist to create this space as a way to explore the boundaries of lived experience, expressing the desire to be discovered once in sharing the self with others. At the same time, his diary represents a space where the limits of his life are accessible for analysis and self-analysis, because here, Alexei Marinat reveals the surprising powers of liberation through the purifying exercise of autobiographical art.
The anatomy of authentic autobiographic narratives [Articol]
(USARB, 2020) Melnic, Svetlana
The diversity of form is what has characterized autobiographical discourse since the beginning of the Western literary narrative tradition. One of the consequences of this diversity is the complexity and ambiguity of the explanation of this term, the autobiography being historically classified as one of the oldest forms of narrative, its construction model being associated with the paradigm of the ancient novel. The value of the autobiography derives from the act of writing, but also from the authenticity of the testimony presented in accordance with other documents, which describe the same events in the life of the autobiographer. The autobiography should not be read as a document of the past, but as an elaboration of consciousness or an interface between the past and the future, between experience and recollection, between the subject that reflects on writing and the text itself. The reader of an autobiographical text must insist on the authenticity and identity of the author of the text and the author from within the text, because only here the reader can find his own authenticity.
Autenticitatea şi genul (auto)biografic: complexitate şi polivalenţă conceptuală [Articol]
(USARB, 2020) Melnic, Svetlana
The starting point of this study is the history review of the concept of “authenticity”, starting from the systematic observation that places “authenticity” in an area adjacent to the research of the equally multidisciplinary concept of “identity”. The article offersa brief review of the historical origins of the conceptual evolution of the “self”, which, in the context of sociocultural influences, shaped the value horizon of “authenticity”. This study will also draw the connections between the meanings of the concept of “authenticity”, transcending the boundaries ofthe literary studies, offering a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the concept.By paying close attention to the variety of connotations that make up the concept of “authenticity”, as well as the variety of projects and theoretical objectives followed by it, navigating the literature of authenticity also imposed scrupulous distinctions between these various meanings.
Biografia detenţiei lui Alexei Marinat (jurnalul recluziunii Călătorii în jurul omului) [Articol]
(USARB, 2020) Melnic, Svetlana
Following the establishment of the communist regime in Bessarabia after 1940, the memorialist Alexei Marinat refuses to accept the Soviet dictatorship, suffering from professional humiliation and political persecution. The recognition of the communist dictatorship is unacceptable to the ambitious diarist who is later sentenced to ten-years’ imprisonment in the Gulag re-education camps. Named “Solzhenitsyn of Bessarabia”, Alexei Marinat succeeds in completing the image of an inferno of the dictatorial torture that haunted the Romanian society between the Prut and the Dniester. The reclusion diary “Travelling Around the Man”, published in 2004, for which he was granted the Writers’ Union Award in Moldova, registers the itinerary of the former intellectual who did not accept the ideological authority. The confessional work of the memorialist, significant in describing the repressive condition of the individual, and illustrating the incarceration, the torture, and the psychological violence, provides a convenient framework for the reconstruction of a living portrait of the common oppressive structure, behind which, a rich moral universe of dissidents is discovered. The experience of the Gulag, in all its complexity, and the autobiographical study offered by the diarist are precious historic prerequisites aiming at revealing the crimes of the oppressive Soviet regime.
Etica confesiunii în literatura de exil a lui Alexei Marinat [Articol]
(USARB, 2018) Melnic, Svetlana
The memoirs of Bessarabian author Alexei Marinat, contained in the volumes “Traveling around the Man” and “Me and the World” fascinate the reader by the authenticity of the experience and the writing. The identity of the narrator as a witness is perceived in the credibility of the events authentically described. Author’s narrative ethics focuses its attention on exterior text matters, trying to build a universally binding value system, involving the memorialist’s ethical mission of “enriching” the text with unique illustrating situations. The diarist Alexei Marinat illustrates the tensions between the ethical imperatives and different models of representation of terror in terms of deficiency of acting freely under the oppressive regime, being in search of new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present.
Impactul (auto)biografiei în Călătorii în jurul omului de Alexei Marinat [Articol]
(2021) Melnic, Svetlana
În literatura română din Basarabia secolului trecut, memoriile autobiografice ale lui Alexei Marin constituie notabile exemple în acest sens.
Proiecţii asupra spaţiului concentraţionar în „Eu şi lumea” de Alexei Marinat [Articol]
(2018) Melnic, Svetlana
This article approaches the theme of concentrationary space, a less discussed topic in the detention memoirs, a genre dominated by the uncertainty of the dissident-protagonist and by the Communist imprisonment regime. The main coordinates of the concentrationary communist universe Alexei Marinat’sMe and the Worldare highlighted by trying to recreate the Bessarabian Gulag memory and the oppression of the Communist regime characterizing that period. The artistic devices point at the coordinates of the concentrationary space and at the documentary and survival purpose, primarily pursued by the author. The article also seeks to analyse the stylistic register used by Alexei Marinat, which is a way of highlighting the concentrationary reality.
Receptarea memorialisticii detenţiei lui Alexei Marinat în spaţiul românesc [Articol]
(USARB, 2017) Melnic, Svetlana
This article highlights the major literary work reviews of Alexei Marinat, a Bessarabian Solzhenitsyn, who excels in the memoirs genre and the documentary prose. For over six decades, with small intermittent periods, the former political prisoner reflects on events and phenomena, records experiences in diaries that were published towards the end of his career. The diarist’s work is characterized, without exaggeration, by its commitment to honesty and literary glory, for which the author endured harsh years of detention.
Reconstituirea realităţii Gulagului prin digitalizarea jurnalului detenţiei lui Alexei Marinat [Articol]
(2019) Melnic, Svetlana
Perceived through the lenses of the author’s torture and incarceration, Alexei Marinat’s confessional literature provides the reader with a legacy: the right to freedom and to remembrance, the restitution of Gulag reality. The memoirs of the diarist A. Marinat tend to show the full extent of the phenomenon of alienation from the perspective of a survivor who managed to record the terrible realities of communist persecution, recovering the memory of the communist Gulag and acting as a true advocate of the individuals who suffered from this regime. This paper will give an overview of A. Marinat’s Gulag “model”, related to the famous studies of literary critics and historians such as Leona Toker, Anne Applebaum, likewise reflecting the contribution of the memorialists Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov, Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya to the knowledge and awareness of the Gulag literature. The fundamental relevance of the digitization of A. Marinat’s memoirs will also be examined, analysing the way the digital technologies serve to reconstruct the history and reality of the Gulag.
Recuperarea sinelui în memorialistica detenţiei a lui Alexei Marinat [Articol]
(USARB, 2020) Melnic, Svetlana
This article represents a brief analysis of the detention memoirs of Alexei Marinat, which reveal the fictional and the authentic side of the auctorial self, along with its expression in the language presented to the readers. The memoirs offer a rich perspective of analysis on life in captivity, of the author‟s intimate reflections in relation to the process of rediscovery and redefinition of the self, transformed after imprisonment. This study also attempts to demonstrate that the diarist‟s confessions constitute unique human testimonies, offering authenticity to the terrifying historical events.

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