O perspectivă asupra esteticii romanului la Camil Petrescu
A Perspective on the Aesthetics of the Novel in Camil Petrescu

Summary/Abstract: The affirmation of “superpersonal intelligence” in the world, through exceptional individuals, represents the humanizing force of a modern universe unstable to the point of anguish and disintegration, where all historically accumulated values are put under the sign of doubt. To trust in the manifestation of ahistorical “superpersonal intelligence” through the historical action of exceptional personalities offers to the modern existence the only possible meaning to support, both philosophically and socially. Camil Petrescu's opinion is by no means isolated, but takes forms deeply related to great philosophers (Husserl, Heidegger, Cioran, Sartre) and novelists of the XX-th century (Th. Mann, H. Hesse, A. Malraux, Huxley, Proust, Knut Hamsun, E. Sábato etc.). In my study, I analyze Camil Petrescu's vision on the aesthetics of the novel, in order to highlight the deep connection of his thinking with the philosophy of the era.

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