GEORGE MIHAIL ZAMFIRESCU - THE PARADIGM OF A CONTROVERSIAL MODERNITY
GEORGE MIHAIL ZAMFIRESCU - THE PARADIGM OF A CONTROVERSIAL MODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Interwar prose writer and playwright, George Mihail Zamfirescu is part of an eclectic and controversial modernism. A critical and sentimental observer of the world in which he lived, his vision is objective due to the realism generated by the inclusion of the social aspects of the periphery, whose poet is and due to the gloomy vision of a world he knew from inside. Sentimentalism and lyricism, descriptive excess represent souvenirs from a previous century, while authenticity and psychological subjectivism, the penetrating and truthful radiography of teenage love as well as individual or collective human psychology are signs of modernity and artistic maturity. His evolution is opposite. While Domnișoara Nastasia and Maidanul cu dragoste are works unanimously considered as aesthetic values that get the status of masterpieces, the rest of his creations can be registered on oscillating value coordinates. Cântecul destinelor is almost a Balzacian novel, in which we feel Nicolae Filimon’s influence – the analysis gives way to creation, to the uniscient–subjective perspective, the omniscient- subjective perspective.

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