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UN GRAND ROMANCIER DU COMMUNISME: ION D. SÎRBU
A GREAT NOVELIST OF COMMUNISM: ION D. SIRBU

Author(s): Magda Cârneci
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: communism; distopia; Europe; history; textual references; human condition.

Summary/Abstract: By focusing upon specific cultural and ideological circumstances that surrounded and determined Ion D. Sîrbu’s aesthetic profile, the study draws attention to the value of this important Romanian writer from the communist period, whose qualities of novelist, especially, literary history has tended to underrate. The novel Adio, Europa is brought under analysis, underlining the Sîrbu’s linguistic originality and his great talent of mirroring the depths of the human condition.

  • Issue Year: 54/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 79-86
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: French