THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE AS A FORM OF FEMININE AUTHENTICITY (HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE AS A FORM OF FEMININE AUTHENTICITY (HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU)
Author(s): Alina-Mariana StîngăSubject(s): Literary Texts, Cultural history, Romanian Literature, Philology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: autobiography; authenticity; feminine literature; the city; real life-real literature;
Summary/Abstract: Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu opens the trajectory of analysis, the work of the most prominent writer of the interwar period being situated between two boundaries: "the subjective one" and "the objective one". The influence of the autobiography confers to the Bengescian work a dimension of authenticity through which the author follows, involuntarily or not, the direction of the epoch: real literature is real life. Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu's short stories of the beginning, which have been marked by the confluence between psychological analysis and lyricism, fall into the authenticity based on the rendering of the truth and the influence of autobiography, using the technique of the intimate journal and narrative in the first person. Heroes are empirical projections of her experiences, the research of the female psyche being one of the Bengescian creation objectives, that reminds of the adventurous penetration of Virginia Woolf's character consciousness.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 749-756
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian