MOTIVE FILOZOFICE ÎN DRAMATURGIA LUI CAMIL PETRESCU
PHILOSOPHICAL MOTIFS IN THE DRAMATURGY OF CAMIL PETRESCU

Summary/Abstract: Camil Petrescu's philosophical education profoundly shapes his dramaturgy. In The Game of the Fairies, Gelu Rușcanu becomes trapped within the realm of Platonic Ideas, driven first by the Ideal of Eros and later by the pursuit of Absolute Justice. Convinced that love and justice must be perfect and uncompromising, he ultimately realizes that absolute ideals cannot be fully realized in the human world. Unable to reconcile reality with his metaphysical aspirations, he ends his life in suicide. In Venetian Act, Pietro Gralla commits a similar metaphysical error by idealizing Alta as the embodiment of feminine perfection, inspired by Leibniz's concept of the "monad of monads." Alta's betrayal reveals not only her imperfection but also Pietro's self-deception. Having projected the Absolute onto a fallible human being, he experiences a profound crisis of consciousness and an irreconcilable estrangement from himself.

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