The Childhood World and the Metamorphoses of the Society in Transition

Abstract

The present study aims to trace the guidelines of an ongoing phenomenon, the transition, reflected in post-Soviet Romanian literature, especially the transition seen and experienced by children. Two novels are analyzed: „Kinderland” by Liliana Corobca and „Children’s Crusade” by Florina Ilis. Regardless of the aesthetic stakes, the texts have at the center of the action the experiences of the infantile self, its formative and deforming events that denounce the political and social context of the current period. They are barometers both of the era and of the literature that was published in these years.