PAVEL DAN'S PROSE. THE HUMAN DESTINY AND THE ETHICAL SANCTION
PAVEL DAN'S PROSE. THE HUMAN DESTINY AND THE ETHICAL SANCTION

Summary/Abstract: The rural world is, in Pavel Dan's prose, archaic and at the same time infused with elements of modern civilization and mentality. People live acutely uneasy and traumatic, are animated by metaphysical interrogations, summaries addressed to the transcendent, questioning the deep springs of existence, while myths, archaic rites and even religious institutions have limited operational coherence in the rural area, even if the members of the rural community constantly refer to them, because religiosity, mystical, ecstatic living, is ignored, superstitions have greater power. Rather than religion, the rituals are desacralized, taking place mechanically or even in a parodic key, so that the original senses undergo a symbolic mutation, they become providers of profane significance.

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