GALA GALACTION, A PATRIARCHAL FACE/IMAGE OF ROMANIAN LITERATURE
GALA GALACTION, A PATRIARCHAL FACE/IMAGE OF ROMANIAN LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Gala Galaction, a declared priest of Christian doctrine, is a writer who paints with deep meaning various phenomena in his writings and passionately propagates ideas that contradict rigid church dogmas. Passionate about the descriptive writings himself, the prose writer is an artist of realistic literature. The belief in the possibility of the miraculous intervention of the divinity in people's lives is found in his short stories and novels. Galaction's epic creation suffered significantly between 1920 and 1930 due to his clerical profession. In his remarkable short stories, the prose writer had picked up his subjects, revealing human passions and aspirations. The realistic element is the most sensitive, fragile, as it shapes stories with a Christian substrate. Each of the writer's period is of a creative effervescence. In Roxana, the friendship of a zealous Christian priest with a Jewish family and an old Protestant woman is shown with all sympathy. At the height of more than half a century of creative activity, which gave him a laurel wreath, Galaction did not enjoy his success and always thought about the unrest that was swirling around in his life. "My theology is lost in literature and literature seems to me to throw me right on the periphery of theology," the writer confessed in 1954 The dominant concern was to illustrate the struggle between virtue and sin, between purity, morality and temptation, between dogma and instinct.

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