Drama copilului în contextul migraţiei: proiecţii în romanul Kinderland de Liliana Corobca [Articol]

Abstract

In our article, we follow and comment on the drama of abandoned children, reflected in the novel Kinderland by Liliana Corobca. Inspired by the migration phenomenon that is so common in our country, the book renders the soul torture to which children whose parents go to work abroad are condemned. For the most part, the novel is conceived in the form of a monologic discourse written in the first person - a disturbing message to the parents of the character Cristina Dumitrache, a twelve-year-old girl. The subject of the novel involves some vivid social and psychological emphasis. The universe of a village, evoked by the proser, becomes, by extension, the image of the entire Moldovan space, where wanders indifference and apathy of the adults in relation to the destiny of the growing generation. The proser places various actors “on stage’, whom she designs rigorously and in detail. A world full of shocking cases transpires at the forefront of the confessions of the child character, the girl engaged with so much abnegation in adult life, assuming prematurely the whole spectrum of parental duties, strongly manifesting her feelings of maternal protection to the two brothers who are left in her care. The exhausting works she performs in her parents’ place, the dramatic experiences that the protagonist of the novel passes through form her will and help her to mature early. The girl is thus initiated in various aspects of parenting: the care and education of young children, keeping the house clean and maintaining the psychological climate, etc. The child takes almost instinctively the mission of the two parents, working abroad – the father in Iakitia and the mother in Italy. The content of the novel Kinderland is in the form of a collage: besides the many sequences cut out of her brothers' and her daily life, the narrator character also evokes dramatic events in the lives of some abandoned children, which are really terrifying. The message of the writing directly expresses the serious impact of abandonment on the mental and physical health of children and sounds like a genuine indictment addressed to irresponsible parents and to the entire society in the Republic of Moldova.