MARIN PREDA- THE UNIVERSE OF SHORT PROSE
MARIN PREDA- THE UNIVERSE OF SHORT PROSE

Summary/Abstract: Marin Preda’s prose was channeled on two mediums, each corresponding to some essential stages in the author’s life: that of formation and then the step towards the “new” world, with strong communist, totalitarian accents. The rural world depicted in a crude and unstylized manner in the volume The Encounter in the Lands takes the form of the tragic and is consumed as steps of some fundamental experiences that prepare the Romanian’s later success. Dominant are the negative states, the need for violence, the mysterious fears, the hatred. What is surprising is the impersonal attitude and indifference of the narrator towards this almost inhuman universe born from the unpredictability of human behavior. Neither the tools of inner analysis nor the moralizing directions are missing. The heroes of Marin Preda’s prose are ordinary people, peasants for whom there is no other world than the everyday one and other inner movements than the natural ones. The skilful handling of the dialogue allows the narrator to come to the reader’s support, helping him to recompose a universe imbued with authentic life. The actions of the characters are part of a cold mechanism, devoid of lyricism, that of the daily life of the Romanian peasant. Marin Preda prefers to record the external effects of an underground space. Like his characters, he does not know what is going on in depth. His role is limited to the thorough recording apart from the effects of what happened inside.

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