MODERN AND MODERNITY IN G. M. ZAMFIRESCU'S NOVELS
MODERN AND MODERNITY IN G. M. ZAMFIRESCU'S NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Modernity is a Morgana girl, embodiment of a mirage of literature. You feel like you see her everywhere, but you never know where she really is. The modern character of a literary work is given by the anchoring in a contemporary reality of the writer, by the permanent innovation, by the recovery and reinterpretation of the literary tradition, towards which it is more or less critical. The novels from the Barrier cycle are labeled as modern for the epoch in which they appeared duet o the narrative techniques specific to the psychological novel, to the alternation of the narrative vision, the construction of the characters, the anchoring in a sacred geographyof the author: But what is specific to G. M. Zamfirescu is the intermingling of realism - in various forms, from the classical to the psychological - with romanticism, naturalism and baroque, in an organic whole that is intended to be a masterpiece of the Romanian mythical novel. The characters are real-world types and symbolic archetypes. The modernity of a literary work is given also by its permanent actuality, by the anchoring in the present of a reader who is still seduced by the artistic skill of the author of Maidan cu dragoste. In G. M. Zamfirescu’s world, two modernities coexist: the literary and the bourgeois ones.

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