PROBLEMATICA IDENTITĂȚII EMIGRANTULUI ÎN PROZA NINEI BERBEROVA (PE BAZA POVESTIRILOR FOTOGENICUL ȘI O ÎNTÂMPLARE CU MUZICĂ)

The issue of identity and its loss has often been addressed in émigré literature, as it deals with the inner conflict that individuals feel in relation with themselves and the society in which they live. Thus, many Russian writers at the beginning of the 20th century who experienced emigration turned to literature in order to express their feelings and ideas about integrating in a new environment, but also to represent the impact that this change may have on immigrants’ perception of their own life. The purpose of this article is to analyze the psychological mechanisms through which some of Nina Berberova’s characters (a writer belonging to the first wave of Russian emigration 1920-1940) come to define their identity, attributing their social and professional failures to the changes brought about by emigration. To this end, we will consider the characters’ perspective as well as the narrator’s discourse. We will also analyze the possible causes of the emergence of an identity crisis in the lives of these characters, both before and after their refuge abroad.