A MULTI-FACETED LOOK UPON GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU’S SHORT-STORIES: CRITICAL APARATUS, STRUCTURAL ASPECTS
A MULTI-FACETED LOOK UPON GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU’S SHORT-STORIES: CRITICAL APARATUS, STRUCTURAL ASPECTS

Summary/Abstract: Short-stories have sometimes been considered as a creative-writing exercise, intermezzo to the ‘big novel’, as ‘hinterland to future novels’. This is a valid reason to focus upon the manner in which the literary exegesis approaches the narrative formula of the short-story, with main emphasis upon Gabriela Adameșteanu’s short-stories. The central themes pondered upon in her writings are history, life of the individual within buildings and institutions, silence, solitude, superficial marriage of convenience. Our essay focuses upon catching the similarities and particularities found in Gabriela Adameșteanu’s short-stories. On the one hand, we aim at portraying the lack of communication within the couple and analysis of dysfunctional relationships between spouses, ideas found in most of her short-stories and, on the other hand, those details that make her writings be unique, i.e. familiar hours spent with colleagues (in O plimbare scurtă după orele de serviciu), the theme of illness (in Vară-primăvară) or street images (in În tramvai and Ora de navetă). All these create that multi-faceted perspective upon a dysphoric world.

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