Le désir de langue. Les dimensions poétique et politique de la diglossie dans le roman « Le jardin de verre » de Tatiana Țîbuleac

The desire for language. The poetic and political dimensions of diglossia in the novel “The Glass Garden” by Tatiana Țîbuleac

Authors

  • Cristina Hermeziu Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v4i1.22481

Keywords:

diglossia; poetics; identity; subjectivation; Țîbuleac

Abstract

Still relevant today via mobility and the multicultural environment as the constitutive elements of our globalized societies, the reflections around “the cumbersome problem of the genius of languages” (Cassin 2016) join and enrich the question of living together and building oneself. In the field of literature or human sciences, the thought of the practice of languages in a situation of diglossia has forged an imaginary which often connects the passage from one language to another to a balance of power and a tension of identity. We propose an analysis of the symbolic values of the dilemma between the Romanian language and the Russian language which is at the heart of the diegesis of the novel Grădina de sticlă [The Glass Garden] by Tatiana Țîbuleac. Published in Romanian by Éditions Cartier de Chișinău and translated into several languages, including French and Spanish, the book was awarded the European Union Prize for Literature in 2019. The fictional world and the language of writing describe a symbolic abyss: the author describes in Romanian the fight with the Russian of a Moldovan orphan who is trying to rebuild herself between the two languages. In a very colorful style, the novel deploys a po(ï)etics of “between”, which also has a political dimension.

 

Author Biography

Cristina Hermeziu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași

Cristina Hermeziu (born in 1971), journalist and writer, is currently holding a position of Associate Lecturer at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (Romania), Department of Communication Sciences, within the Faculty of Philosophy and Social-Political Sciences. She received a Ph.D. in Philology from the University of Iași in 2004, with the dissertation, Expressivity and Persuasion in the Television Discourse.

She is the editor of two essay collections on communication, Viața pe Facebook. Dau like deci exist / Life on Facebook. I like therefore I am, Polirom, (2020), and Revoluția din depărtare  / The revolution from afar, Curtea Veche, (2011). She is the author of two poetry books and of Vedere din Turnul Eiffel. Portrete civile, crochiuri politice / A view from the Eiffel Tower, and Civil portraits, political sketches, Junimea, (2017), a collection of her published pieces as an international correspondent in Paris. Her research interests include the theory of communication, digital communication, social networks, and the Internet, cultural studies, cultural memory studies, comparative literature, French and Romanian studies. 

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The cover photo was taken on April 20th, 2011 and represents the window to the reconstructed house of Fefeleaga in Bucium, Alba County, Romania

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2021-05-13

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Hermeziu, C. (2021). Le désir de langue. Les dimensions poétique et politique de la diglossie dans le roman « Le jardin de verre » de Tatiana Țîbuleac: The desire for language. The poetic and political dimensions of diglossia in the novel “The Glass Garden” by Tatiana Țîbuleac. Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 4(1), 64–74. https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v4i1.22481

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2021): Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies

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