Row by Row: Livius Ciocârlie Keeping a Journal, Reading Letters

The author of the journal has the ambition to keep an inventory and centralize everything, to point out every figure and every detail, insignificant apparently, of lives and existence. The obstinate narrator and subtle interpreter offer each other room for manifestation. Without the lengthy inventories and descriptions, the essay writer would lack the biographical references to insert his reflections, suspended in the general context, in a more moralizing formula than memoiristic. The idea pursued in Great Correspondences is that a great creation “consumes” the human being, consciously sacrificed by the creator, whom we rediscover in his letters or in his journal.