The Life în Parentheses? Livius Ciocârlie between Prose and Journal

Every day life transpires in the self-critical and self-referential notes of Livius Ciocârlie. A huge contrast opens up between the authors present, the person who writes a work such as The Sunken Bell, and the character’s past experiences (his own) that the writer explores. The present looks rather pale and sketchy, reduced to lamentations and self mockery that are rather hard to be believed even by the author himself. The past, on the contrary, is represented and brought up to date literarily in captivating sequences of “inner cinematography”. The author crosses the boundary between fiction and journal. A specific scene from his consumed past, outdated, “dead” past holds the attention of the reader for the techniques of Livius Ciocârlie in the construction of the narrative.