IPOSTAZE ALE LUMII JURIDICE ÎN ROMANUL DONNA ALBA DE GIB MIHĂESCU
ASPECTS OF THE LEGAL WORLD IN THE NOVEL DONNA ALBA BY GIB MIHĂESCU

Summary/Abstract: The author of the study examines the legal world and its manifestations in the imaginary world of the novel Donna Alba by Gib Mihăescu, published in 1935. Although this is a secondary theme within the novel, there are many significant aspects referring to these matters. There are two main characters (Mihai Aspru, Georges Radu Şerban), as well as two secondary ones, who belong to the legal world by their profession, as lawyers or lawyer’s secretaries. As far as their legal profession is concerned, they think and act in their own personal way in the various situations appearing in the novel. Mihai Aspru, who, as a student, assists at the trials taking place in the court of law at the Palace of Justice, offers an extremely negative image of justice because he sees the professionals in the field of law and the laws themselves as symbols of the spirit of injustice which in its turn generates a powerful feeling of unhappiness. Justice is heavily marked by corruption and its decisions are taken depending on whimsically established prices. The novel also contains minute analyses of the oratorical spectacle of pleading in court.

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