Pavel Dan's Prose in the Context of Interwar Romanian Literature Cover Image

Proza lui Pavel Dan în contextul literaturii române interbelice
Pavel Dan's Prose in the Context of Interwar Romanian Literature

Author(s): Iulian Boldea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Romanian Literature
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: prose; interwar; literature; archaic; mentality;

Summary/Abstract: The rural world is, in Pavel Dan's prose, archaic and at the same time infused with elements of modern civilization and mentality. People live acutely uneasy and traumatic, are animated by metaphysical interrogations, summaries addressed to the transcendent, questioning the deep springs of existence, while myths, archaic rites and even religious institutions have limited operational coherence in the rural area, even if the members of the rural community constantly refer to them, because religiosity, mystical, ecstatic living, is ignored, superstitions have greater power. Rather than religion, the rituals are desacralized, taking place mechanically or even in a parodic key, so that the original senses undergo a symbolic mutation, they become providers of profane significance.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 265-277
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian