PERENNIAL REBREANU, AN ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN REALISTIC PROSE
PERENNIAL REBREANU, AN ARGUMENT IN FAVOUR OF THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO TRADITIONAL EUROPEAN REALISTIC PROSE

Summary/Abstract: The issue of modernity in any realistic writer’s prose has almost always been a focal point of exegesis. In all the novelists inspired from village themes, be they Blasco Ibáñez, Hardy, Reymont, Verga or Rebreanu, literary criticism of certain epochs has tried to identify contemporaneity in ways more or less far-fetched. Such interpretations, eager to highlight actuality at any cost, inevitably distorted the deep meanings of the books, overshadowing their focus on perennial truths. Eventually, by a hilarious paradox, the artist forcibly became our contemporary more than the man of his time he really was. Hence the investigation of this topic deserves more zeal and attention than it has been given so far, just to mitigate such exaggerations. The artists who sought inspiration and harvested themes from rural traditions worldwide are of similar value and grand stature, but, unfortunately, in the global heritage of masterpieces, Rebreanu still has not become widely known, as he deserves to, because his work has not been sufficiently translated and analyzed abroad.

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