Cum scăpăm de război? Ionel Teodoreanu vs Liviu Rebreanu / Ionel Teodoreanu vs Cezar Petrescu
How Do We Escape War?! Ionel Teodoreanu vs Liviu Rebreanu / Ionel Teodoreanu vs Cezar Petrescu

Summary/Abstract: Ionel Teodoreanu’s great merit is to have demonstrated that the Romanian novel of the inter-war period has overcome the age of trials. If Rebreanu is the one who paved the way with Ion, the first modern Romanian novel, Ionel Teodoreanu is a writer who has a major contribution to the diversification of the literary species. In Rebreanu's novels, the theme of rurality is present in novels that have become symbols of the species. The conflicts, generated by the attitude according to which man is considered valuable if he is a wealthy person, whether internal (psychological) or external (social), are, in Rebreanu's view, real tragedies. With Ionel Teodoreanu, there is no question of the characters escaping control over any of the situations in which they are placed, especially since the author does not flirt with such existential problems as Rebreanu's heroes do. From this consideration, we can say that he is totally different from Rebreanu. Ionel Teodoreanu's heroes quiver at the slightest delight of nature's vision, at the slightest gesture. Cezar Petrescu places himself in the objective narrative and writes chronicle-type novels, to which he often returns in theory, because Petrescu theorizes his novels, explains them in order to be well understood by his audience. He follows the model established in the West by Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Zola, producing novels that are well structured from an epic point of view, with a rigorous structure, wishing to impress the segment of Romanian readers who are epic lovers.

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