LITERATURE AND LIFE. DIMENSIONS OF TODAY'S ROMANIAN PROSE
LITERATURE AND LIFE. DIMENSIONS OF TODAY'S ROMANIAN PROSE

Summary/Abstract: Today's Romanian prose is distinguished, above all, by diversity: of themes, of vision and of style. Undoubtedly, in all this diversity, which is a distinctive sign of the relief of contemporary epic, an important role is played by the issue of generations, because each generation of creation brings with it a different set of values, levels of narrative and specific ways of processing reality. To illustrate the diversity of styles in today's prose, we have chosen three writers with relevant particularities: Nicolae Breban, Dan Lungu and Florina Ilis. Seductive, dilemmatic, fascinating through epic and subtextual ideas, Nicolae Breban's novels in the volume Act gratuit exhibit the essential qualities of his prose, from the chaste lucidity to the fascination of storytelling or the obsession of the past, through a rhetoric of the truth of being, in an energetic, dense and supple writing. Dan Lungu's novels have acquired the fame of a redefinition of the exposition of the everyday, in dense, varied, paradoxical images. Florina Ilis's prose is also based on a subtle play between appearance and essence, the narrative having a palimpsest aspect, with overlapping layers and constructions, the past being reconstructed through well-twisted fictional strategies.

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