THE EPOPEE OF VICA DELCĂ FROM WASTED MORNING BY GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU
THE EPOPEE OF VICA DELCĂ FROM WASTED MORNING BY GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU
Author(s): Gabriela GheorghisorSubject(s): Cultural history, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Philology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Romanian post-war literature; polyphonic novel; epopee; Everyman character; symbolic image;
Summary/Abstract: Gabriela Adameşteanu is today one of the canonical writers of post-war Romanian literature, and her most famous novel, Wasted Morning, enjoys the most critical appreciation and benefits from most translations in other languages. This article analyzes the "epopee" of Vica Delcă, the most picturesque character of the narrative polyphony. With the outrageous and rough speech of a simple woman in the slum, and with her practical and economical spirit, ridiculously dressed as and hunchbacked, Vica is the image of the survivor in difficult historical times, the symbolic image of the ordinary Romanian who went through two wars and hardly goes over communism.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 418-421
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian