PANAIT ISTRATI – THE LOOSER – THE WINNER – ”THE ABSURD MAN”. A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
PANAIT ISTRATI – THE LOOSER – THE WINNER – ”THE ABSURD MAN”. A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present Istrati from the perspective of transdisciplinarity, beyond the position of the loser or the winner, reporting him at the time of the publication of “Confession for the Losers”. The opposition “victorious” – “defeated” will be replaced by the ternary “victorious” – “defeated” – “absurd man”, the approach starting from the analoguey between Istrati and Camus’ absurd hero Sisyphus. After sixteen months in Soviet Russia, and especially after the "Rusakov Affair", Istrati unmasks the injustices discovered in order to make them right and thus win the Revolution. Because the Russian authorities knew the reality, but were not willing to give up their social positions, they will accuse Istrati of treason through Bolshevik propaganda magazines. Not so much the accusations as the fact that no friend, old revolutionary, will be on his side causes Istrati a profound suffering, causing him to give up being part of the realization of the communist ideal as those in power understood it. He declared himself defeated in this respect. He is also victorious, through his rebellious attitude, the constant revolt giving life and the individual greatness. But beyond that, he is like Sisyphus, Camus' absurd hero, who will come to understand that the price for his passion, for his intense living, is to fight knowing that all this has no sense, meaning, to accept the absurd as part of your condition as a man. And Istrati accepts.

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