HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU. LANDMARKS OF THE SHORT PROSE
HORTENSIA PAPADAT-BENGESCU. LANDMARKS OF THE SHORT PROSE

Summary/Abstract: As she publishes late, Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu is considered part of the interwar period, although from her birth, on the 8th of Decembre 1876, to that of Camil Petrescu, Ion Barbu or Lucian Blaga, there are nearly 20 years. The landmarks in her short prose are not placed on a very large scene and the topics have an identity, contrastive content. The literary works of the first stage deal with her erotic concerns, but love is rather imaginary than real, as the feminine character mostly experiences not the presence of love, but its absence; also, there are art references under different representations: literature, music, painting. Although she was many times accused of writing in an unwieldy manner, with phrases as if conceived in a foreign language, the female writer Hortensia PapadatBengescu cannot be equalized in what regards the depth of the examination of the human soul, especially of a woman’s soul.

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