Les récits d’enfance lecléziens – entre autobiographie et fiction

Autobiographie et fiction se rencontrent dans les textes de J.M.G. Le Clézio pour former un tout cohérent. Parler de la création romanesque dans Le chercheur d’or, La Quarantaine ou Onitsha signifie à la fois mettre l’accent sur l’héritage reçu pendant les premières années de vie. La liaison inédite entre les souvenirs d’un “temps heureux” et les histoires familiales que nous apercevons derrière le parcours identitaire des personnages certifie l’ ”altération” des frontières génériques. La mémoire familiale dont parlait Ricœur met en scène un “nous” englobant ancêtres et héritiers, individus porteurs d’un trésor inestimable: une mythologie collective qui marque la redécouverte de l’origine. L’ “en-quête” que Le Clézio entreprend le rattache au passé. Pour recréer la magie de l’enfance, il ré-évoque le passé tout en s’appuyant sur des souvenirs ou des documents. Ces vrais “biographèmes” démontrent à quel point l’écriture de Le Clézio se trouve à la lisière de l’auto(bio)fiction.Autobiography and fiction meet each other in the texts of Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Talking about creation in novels such as Le chercheur d’or, La Quarantaine, Onitsha or Voyage à Rodrigues symbolizes the need to emphasize the cultural inheritance received during childhood. The original relationship between the memories from a “happy time” and the family history of the characters certifies the alteration of the generic frontiers. The notion of “mémoire familiale” expressed by Ricœur introduces the pronoun “us” involving ancestors and inheritants, individuals that carry a great treasure: a collective mythology that marks the rediscover of the origins. That is why, in order to recreate the magic of childhood, the author talks about the past while using memories and documents to demonstrate that the texts find themselves at the frontier between fiction and autobiography

NORWEGIAN AUTHOR JON FOSSE WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2023. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WRITER

Interviewing Jon Fosse in October 2023 was a great honour for the Norwegian Academic Environment at Babeș-Bolyai University, where students in the Norwegian Language and Literature Bachelor’s Programme study Jon Fosse’s work in the Literary translation and Short fiction courses. In 2018 the Department of Norwegian Language and Literature Studies in Cluj celebrated the PhD defence of a thesis entitled Jon Fosse and the New Theatre, by Anamaria Babiaș-Ciobanu, supervised by Professor Sanda Tomescu Baciu, founder of the Norwegian Language and Literature BA studies at Babeș-Bolyai University in 1991. As part of her PhD thesis, the candidate had the privilege to interview Jon Fosse and to publish the translation of the play Skuggar [Umbre, 2015] into Romanian, with the support of Norwegian Literature Abroad in the Nordica collection of Casa Cărții de Știință Publishing House.

JON FOSSE'S WRITINGS READ THROUGH NORWEGIAN AND ROMANIAN LENSES. A SURVEY

On the occasion of the recent Nobel Prize for Literature 2023, awarded to the Norwegian playwriter, novelist, essay writer and poet Jon Fosse, we invited scholars and translators from Norway and Romania to answer a series of questions related to Jons Fosse’s outstanding contribution to world literature. Many of the translators are at the same time active at academic level. The researchers and the translators were asked to address at least three of several questions. We invited the following contributors to participate in the survey: Professor Heming H. Gujord (Bergen University), Professor Unni Langås (Agder University), Professor Lisbeth P. Wærp and Professor Henning H. Wærp (The Artic University of Norway), Associate Professor and translator Zsofia Domsa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim), Associate Professor and translator Carmen Vioreanu (Bucharest University), Senior Lecturer and translator Daria Ioan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj), Assistant Professor and translator Ovio Olaru (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu) and Dr. Anamaria Babiaș-Ciobanu, translator. We are thankful to the respondents for participating in the survey

Les récits d’enfance lecléziens – entre autobiographie et fiction

Autobiography and fiction meet each other in the texts of Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Talking about creation in novels such as Le chercheur d’or, La Quarantaine, Onitsha or Voyage à Rodrigues symbolizes the need to emphasize the cultural inheritance received during childhood. The original relationship between the memories from a “happy time” and the family history of the characters certifies the alteration of the generic frontiers. The notion of “mémoire familiale” expressed by Ricœur introduces the pronoun “us” involving ancestors and inheritants, individuals that carry a great treasure: a collective mythology that marks the rediscover of the origins. That is why, in order to recreate the magic of childhood, the author talks about the past while using memories and documents to demonstrate that the texts find themselves at the frontier between fiction and autobiography

BOOK REVIEW: LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN, „BUNICA MEA CHINEZOAICĂ” (MIN KINESISKE FARMOR/MY CHINESE GRANDMOTHER), TRADUCERE DIN LIMBILE NORVEGIANĂ ȘI DANEZĂ CU NOTE DE SANDA TOMESCU BACIU, CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2022, 232 P.

The aged photo of a ship would normally not determine you to return to the first pages of a text and read it again and again. But if you are the reader of Lars Saabye Christensen’s new book, Min kinesiske farmor [My Chinese grandmother], it does. Because Lars Saabye Christensen’s text is not only a book about the journey to China that the narrator’s grandmother took in 1906, but it is in fact a journey in itself. It takes the reader from the present to the near and far past, from Norway to Denmark and China, as it renders the power of memory and love and the changes that come along with the passing of time. Bunica mea chinezoaică [My Chinese Grandmother] is admirably translated from Norwegian and Danish by Professor Sanda Tomescu Baciu, with the financial support of NORLA (Norwegian Literature Abroad) and appeared in 2022 at Casa Cărții de Știință publishing house. It brings a flood of memories revolving around S/S Protector, whose picture we can see on the cover of the Romanian translation of the novel, thanks to Professor Sanda Tomescu Baciu and M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark