Genealogical phantasms and sublimated identities: Mihail Sadoveanu, Mateiu Caragiale, Panait Istrati Cover Image

Fantasme genealogice și identități sublimate: Mihail Sadoveanu, Mateiu Caragiale, Panait Istrati
Genealogical phantasms and sublimated identities: Mihail Sadoveanu, Mateiu Caragiale, Panait Istrati

Author(s): Paul Cernat
Subject(s): Cultural history, Romanian Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: identity; Balkanic; fabulous; ghosts; genealogy;

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to explore the typological links between the writings of three Romanian prose writers in the 1th half of the 20th century, defining for the Eastern European counter-modernity: Mateiu I. Caragiale, Panait Istrati and Mihail Sadoveanu. We explore their Balkanic (Southern) genealogy, as well as their biographical imaginary and cultural substratum, and we also talk about the points of convergence/divergence between their narratives. The aim is to identify a common pattern of those writings in which the biographic was reshaped and artistically sublimated by the ghosts of the South-Eastern tradition.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 13-23
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian