Mahalaua decăzuților- reconfigurarea spațiului literar în Diplomatul, tăbăcarul și actrița
The Slum of the Decayed – Reconfiguring the Literary Space in Diplomatul, tăbăcarul și actrița

Summary/Abstract: Within the interview space, in an exercise of self-reflexive sincerity, Carol Ardeleanu shapes his literary belief, the "innerprinciple" which laid the foundations of his entire creation, regardless of the value fluctuations, anchoring it into the sphere of realism which so much relies on veracity. He denies the tough realism that slips into the artificial, able only "to give us hideous mannequins" while "striving to copy the truth" and promotes a selection principle by which the writer actually retains from reality only those elements required to capture "the essence of the characters/personages", the risk being otherwise to build "hybrid characters entangled in unnecessary details". Vital in the literary formula that he adopts is the "foundation of truth, of real life", an inner imperative to which the creator submits and which facilitates "safe and direct contact between the writer and the lecturer." Originality remains untouched and is based on distorting, changing and recreating the characters, the reality by sophisticated and "careful chemical combinations".Beyond the limitations of the method of truth, signaled in time by the literary criticism, the first novel of Carol Ardeleanu, published in 1926, has the merit of approaching itself to the "poetry of reality" of one of the slums of Bucharest, but it survives in value by illustrating the declassification of a character of Dostoievskian origin, the Consul Barbu Salceanu. In the slumworld, personal distances reconfigure by a redefinition of the steps, of the space bubbles, the main cause being the compression of the physical space. Crowding tenants in poor, suffocating rooms generate undesirable approaches, perceived on one hand as an invasion of the intimate space, and on the other hand as manifestations of friendship and human solidarity.

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