THE SOLITUDE OF WOMAN IN HORTENSIA PAPADAT- BENGESCU NOVELS
THE SOLITUDE OF WOMAN IN HORTENSIA PAPADAT- BENGESCU NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu is, undoubtedly, a writer that imposed herself in an age in which writing belonged to men. She writes an “eminently feminine” literature, as Garabet Ibrăileanu used to say and as she herself asserts through the voice of one ofher characters: “The study of women always seemed to me more interesting than that of men, because in a man’s case you go round the actions and actions are seldom interesting, while a woman has a rich stock of spiritual material, in search of which you can go on an adventurous research, full of surprise”. When she feels lonely, Hortensia confesses to G. Ibrăileanu: “I sometimes take from letters joys that others do not need because they take them from the environment in which they live or because they are self-sufficient. I’m used to being lonely. It is one of my great delights.”

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