Scenarii ale „relocării” identitare în scriitura egografică a lui Bogdan Suceavă – „Memorii din Biblioteca Ideală”. Prolegomene la o estetică non-euclidiană a literaturii: Identity „relocation” scenarios in Bogdan Suceavă’s ego-graphic writing – „Memorii din biblioteca ideală”/ „Memoirs from an ideal library”. Prolegomena to a non-euclidean aesthetics of literature

Nicoleta Ifrim

doi:10.35824/sjrs.v8i1.26493

Scenarii ale „relocării” identitare în scriitura egografică a lui Bogdan Suceavă – „Memorii din Biblioteca Ideală”. Prolegomene la o estetică non-euclidiană a literaturii

Identity „relocation” scenarios in Bogdan Suceavă’s ego-graphic writing – „Memorii din biblioteca ideală”/ „Memoirs from an ideal library”. Prolegomena to a non-euclidean aesthetics of literature

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Nicoleta Ifrim Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania, The Interdisciplinary Centre of Central and South-Eastern European Cultural Studies https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1901-9268

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https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v8i1.26493

Keywords:

Bogdan Suceavă, relocation, non-Euclidean approaches, memoirs

Abstract

The present study aims to approach Bogdan Suceava’s Memorii din Biblioteca Ideală [Memoirs from an ideal library] by a double-faceted perspective. The first one is to enhance a personal authorial response to the contemporary issue of hybridized identities by means of “relocation” scenarios juxtaposing literature and mathematics – a writing pattern for the Romanian intellectual re-defining himself through the confessing discourse. The second perspective brings up some new ideas related to a possible non-Euclidean aesthetics of literature, starting from Suceavă’s opinions regarding the bi-faceted relation between the mathematic narrations and the literary ones.

Author Biography

Nicoleta Ifrim, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania, The Interdisciplinary Centre of Central and South-Eastern European Cultural Studies

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Nicoleta Ifrim, PhD, Habil is a Professor in Romanian literature at Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania and has been the editorial assistant of the Communication Interculturelle et Littérature Journal, Dunărea de Jos University of Galați since September 2010. She received a Ph.D. in Philology (Romanian literature) magna cum laude in 2008 from University of Pitesti. Since 2017 she has been the Head of The Doctoral School of Socio-Humanistic Sciences at Dunărea de Jos University of Galați, Romania. She is the author of several studies on literary criticism, fiction, and contemporary Romanian Literature. Since 2011 she has collaborated with G.Călinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory – Romanian Academy (The Chronology of Romanian Literature. The Post-war Period).

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2025-05-15

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Ifrim, N. (2025). Scenarii ale „relocării” identitare în scriitura egografică a lui Bogdan Suceavă – „Memorii din Biblioteca Ideală”. Prolegomene la o estetică non-euclidiană a literaturii: Identity „relocation” scenarios in Bogdan Suceavă’s ego-graphic writing – „Memorii din biblioteca ideală”/ „Memoirs from an ideal library”. Prolegomena to a non-euclidean aesthetics of literature. Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 8(1), 77–88. https://doi.org/10.35824/sjrs.v8i1.26493

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