Lena Constante. Experience of imprisonment and quest for the word of freedom

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  • Margarita Alfaro Amieiro Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9332

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Lena Constante (1909-2005), writer of Romanian origin choose the French language to write her testimony in Romanian prisons between 1950 and 1957. Her experience, in a context of totalitarian oppression and unjust accusation, express in a cursory manner the political conditions in which the events occurred. However, the author develops a set of transgressive strategies linked to the verbal composition reflected in her autobiographical work L’évasion silencieuse. Mille trois jours seule dans les prisons roumaines (1990). Far from achieving happiness, makes her inner journey against the silence, the isolation and the imposed tortures.

 

Keywords: Lena Constante; jail; silence; writing; French; transgression; release.

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Margarita Alfaro Amieiro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Department of French Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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2016-12-06

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Alfaro Amieiro, M. (2016). Lena Constante. Experience of imprisonment and quest for the word of freedom. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 21, 23–38. https://doi.org/10.7203/qdfed.21.9332
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Vol. 21 (2016): THE CONCENTRATIONARY UNIVERSE: WRITING TO NOT FORGET

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