Henriette Yvonne Stahl: A Special Case in the Romanian Literature
Henriette Yvonne Stahl: A Special Case in the Romanian Literature

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian author of French origin and contemporaneous with Simone de Beauvoir, Henriette Yvonne Stahl enriches our country’s literature through a sensible touch of the particular feminine universe (and of the couple, through extension), eluding the social-communist context which overwhelms and engrains the artistic manifestations of mid past century. Preoccupied with the meaning of the existence and baiting a proustian type of prose, the author launches out in a realistic and well-rounded writing on dikes of her own life experience, permanently juggling between concepts such as reality, the illusion of reality, human evolution and understanding of life. Partner of two important Romanian writers from different periods of her existence – Ion Vinea and Petru Dumitriu –, the Romanian writer of French origin invested herself frenetically in her work just like a profoundly preoccupied artist of the message sent to his peers, a pure humanist one.

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