TÂRGUL DE PROVINCIE CA SPAŢIU FIZIC ŞI PSIHOLOGIC ÎN DRAMATURGIA INTERBELICĂ
SMALL TOWNS AS PHYSICAL SPACE AND AS MENTALITY IN THE INTERWAR ROMANIAN DRAMA

Summary/Abstract: Small towns did not enter the great literature until late, although they will prove to be an extremely generous source of specific typologies, situations, conflicts, being a frontier space between rural and urban, gathering specific reminiscences of the former and aspirations related to the latter. This results in colorful identities, often uncertain or contradictory, which lead either to tragic denouements or to irresistibly comic situations. It should be noted that in drama (as opposed to prose) the comic vision of this space predominates (beginning with vasile Alecsandri with his Chiriţa în provincie (Chiriţa in the Province) - however, an eminently rural space in fact – continuing with Caragiale’s “capital of a mountain county” / which has many explanations, psychological ones included. In the interwar drama things do not change much except in the sense of frequenting this space more often and in the sense of diversifying the source of conflict, the comic vision still giving birth to the most accomplished texts.

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