CANCERUL, DRUMUL CĂTRE ŞI ÎNTOARCEREA DIN IAD. JURNALUL CAMELIEI RĂILEANU

The present study continues some of my previous researches (ILIE, 2020; ILIE, 2020, p. 131-162; ILIE, 2022 etc.), interested in the reflection in the feminine diary of a certain type of existential trauma - the one caused by being diagnosed with a disease perceived as lethal (RUPPERT, 2012, p. 125) and, as an immediate consequence of it, the terrible fight with the disease crowned, unofficially, as the Emperor of All Maladies (MUKHERJEE, 2010). After a recapitulation of what may constitute the proximate genre, and the specific differences in terms of the representation of cancer in such a discourse, my paper analyzes one of the most powerful confessions of crisis that has seen the light of day in the last decade, "The Return from Hell. Diary" by Camelia Răileanu. From my point of view, along with "The Story of a Struggle" by Sorana Gurian, "A Different Kind of Diary. Out of Time" by Matei Călinescu and "In Search of the Found Body. An Ego-Analysis of the Hospital" by Vintilă Mihăilescu, this absolutely disturbing diary is the (Romanian) aesthetic spearhead of the confessive subgenre motivated by the unequal struggle with a disease considered incurable and articulated around identity and existential themes perceived as radical.