REBREANU’S RURAL REALISM IN WORLD LITERATURE CONTEXTS
REBREANU’S RURAL REALISM IN WORLD LITERATURE CONTEXTS

Summary/Abstract: The central point of this study is the comparative analysis of the realistic vein, predominant in all the rural novels by Rebreanu, Hardy, Blasco Ibáñez, Verga and Reymont which we focus on hereby. We discuss realism in point of artistic creed, vision and means, as the constant that provides all similarities. It seems relevant to follow the way in which the European realism aesthetics, the new naturalistic developments, the tradition of national literature and the authors’ intimate psychological predilection for an orderly universe, for objectivity, typification and plausible evocation of social aspects, merge and reveal humanity in long lasting fictional universes. These writers opt for realism at a time when the European cultural environment is fluid, interested in technical innovations, unusual constructions, livresque subtleties and shocking language, absorbed in psychological and intellectual problems, in an effervescent atmosphere of sophisticated, bold, and risky search. Rebreanu, Hardy, Blasco Ibáñez, Verga and Reymont continue European realistic traditions characterised by simplicity and strength of writing, focused on concrete, everyday reality.

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