![]() ![]() ![]() We thus go back to her childhood and adolescence during the time of the dictatorship we enter the rhythms and problems of daily life during that epoch. This telephone call, followed by other arguments, casts Emilia into a veritable crisis of identity, from which she tries to save herself by recollecting the past and seeking to justify her nostalgia in her own eyes and those of her daughter. people.s regime., receives a telephone call from Alice, her daughter, an immigrant in Canada, who urges her mother. Emilia Apostoae, a pensioner, the greater part of whose life has been lived under the. Sunt o bab comunist / Im An Old Communist Old Hag, MediaPro Pictures. The novel is set ten years after the fall of the Ceau.escu dictatorship and shortly before the general elections. Dan Lungu writes, unperturbed, in the genre of socialist realism, but revers. The profound premise of Dan Lungu.s novel resides in an examination of the following paradox: how is it possible that many, even very many, people who formerly lived under a totalitarian, inhuman regime, without having enjoyed privileges or favours, can now be capable of nostalgia ? The author, through the intermediary of an old woman, who relates her life in the first person, attempts to deconstruct the mechanisms of nostalgia and to unravel this psychological enigma. ![]()
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