THE CHILDHOOD IN SELECTED WORKS BY PANAIT ISTRATI AND SALMAN RUSHDIE
THE CHILDHOOD IN SELECTED WORKS BY PANAIT ISTRATI AND SALMAN RUSHDIE

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we are trying to analyse and to find similarities and differences between the ways in which two contemporary realistic novelists with slightly similar literary becomings imagine and depict childhood, paternity, the child-parent rapports and last, but not least, the social position of the child in an Oriental mindset. The two novelists are Romanian-born mostly Francophone writer Panait Istrati and Indian-born and UK-naturalised Salman Rushdie and the works selected for this comparative approach are Mes départs, Méditerrannée – lever du soleil, Mikhaïl by Panait Istrati and Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Luka and the Fire of Life and East, West, by Salman Rushdie.

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