NEO-MODERNISM IN CONSTANTIN ŢOIU’S NOVELS
NEO-MODERNISM IN CONSTANTIN ŢOIU’S NOVELS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to offer an insight into a very interesting prose, written by Constantin Ţoiu during the Romanian literary Reconquista, in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Although he describes some tragic aspects of the communist regime, such as the terror imposed by the state militia, the political investigations, the betrayal of close friends for certain advantages or the imprisonment without any legal motivation, the writer does not want to be considered only a dissident voice of the obsessive decade – as the 1950-ies were called by Romanian critics. He would not like to be considered a courageous author, whose sole purpose is to tell the truth, but an artist, a writer who has managed to revive the literary values of the interwar Modernism: the pleasure to narrate, the perspectivism of narrative voices, the aestheticism of writing, the authenticism of the story. Thanks to all these features of his fiction, he is one of the most important representatives of Romanian Neo-modernism, whose novels are still delightful to read today, when the communist realities are just history.

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