THE UTOPIC REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE INTERWAR NOVELS
THE UTOPIC REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE INTERWAR NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: Romanian literature assigns an important place to the condition of the woman only after the 19th century, until then this bohemian image was almost cauterized by the dogmas of society. Until then, the role of woman in society was only to obey the masculine mentality and the limited intellectual universe, conditioned only by the experience of their common experiences. As a matter of fact, it is easy to see that the presence of the woman was not even recorded in Dimitrie Cantemir’s "Hieroglyphic History". With the rapid upgrading of society, the condition of the woman changes, but especially men’s and social’s attitude changes. This social emancipation arouses the new dares of femininity. In painting, the woman is revealed in bold nudes and in literature this evolutionary movement determines new writer’s attitudes. The Belle Epoque, undoubtedly created a romantic, erotic image in which the feminine presence was contoured in mysterious suggestion lines. Thus, the period of 30 years before the First World War determined in the Romanian culture and art a first influx of feminine artistic capital. The woman’s balding and childish air will perish after the Second World War, during which the woman will be presented in the rugged rural note, the harshness of the feminine existence lying in pain, sacrifice and exhausting work.

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