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Acted And Unacted Parts   Inchide

Florentina Cioloca is a qualified translator, interpreter and teacher of English, with a keen interest in the works of Virginia Wolf. She has a B.A. (Hons) degree in English-Romanian from Transilvania University Braşov and is currently studying at the University of Exeter UK,she has been offered a special scholarship for the MED-TESOL programme.

The turn of the last century was marked by an acute identity crisis resulting from decisive economical and socio-political changes. Consequently, the concept of self started to be represented in literature as fluctuating and fragile, from a subjective and limited narrative perspective. Crystallingin her novels the image of the frustrated individual who is never pleased with his/ her life, Virginia Wolf hailed the modern ascendancy of illusion overreality. Each of her characters appears to suffer from a self deprivation, and this makes them all search for alternate egos unacted parts, that is (a recurrent phrase appearing in several of the novels discussed). Instead of enjoying their lives as they are, these characters prefer to imagine what could have happened, had there been chance. They are actors performing one role after another, but they never find the happiness they pursue, nor do they ever manage to discover their true identity. However, their final frustration and solitude characterise in fact all of us, because, histrionic and superficial as they may be, they are nonetheless live and credible.

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