The Character of the Transition. The Drama of the Emigrant in the Novels Fetița care se juca de-a Dumnezeu by Dan Lungu and Tötentanz sau Viața unei nopți by Claudia Partole

Abstract

n this article, the author discusses the drama of the emigrant in the novels „Fetița care se juca de-a Dumnezeu” by Dan Lungu and „Tötentanz sau Viața unei nopți” by Claudia Partole, one of the hypostasis in which the character of the transition appears. The subject is approached through the prism of transitology, starting from the idea that the phenomenon of emigration is one of the secondary effects of the transition from the communist totalitarian regime to democracy. We proved that the writers manage to translate into disturbing pages the terrible, shocking trials experienced by a good part of our compatriots who went to earn a penny far from home. The novels reveal the consequences of the exodus which proved to be painful, traumatic, devastating, capable of mutilating souls, dehumanizing the being.