ROMANIAN MASS LITERATURE: THE LITERARY ADVENTURES OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
ROMANIAN MASS LITERATURE: THE LITERARY ADVENTURES OF CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: My paper, named Romanian Mass Literature: The literary adventures of childhood and youth, is focalized on novels that were written in the interwar period and that were addressed to teenagers and children, as fundamental reading public. Firstly, it describes the literary context that developed the Romanian interwar literature in Romania, afterwards presenting some of the opinions of that period’s literary critics, regarding the notion of mass literature and children literature. Secondly, it depicts the origins of children and youth’s Romanian literature, enumerating the main Romanian authors, concerned with this domain, their influences, their main volumes and directions they followed. Thirdly, we try to briefly analyze the main novel of Ionel Teodoreanu, the most beloved Romanian author of children literature, trying to identify the strategies that lead to the fact that the trilogy, called La Medeleni, continues even now, after 90 years from the first edition, to fascinate the minds of children and teenagers, at the same time. In conclusion, we can notice the fact that the Romanian interwar children and youth’s literature has its roots in folklore, fairytales, being influenced at the same time by the literary movements of the time, being still the most cherished part of our mass literature.

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