THE HOOLIGANS. EXPERIENCE AND CREATION AS PATHS TO ABSOLUTE FREEDOM
THE HOOLIGANS. EXPERIENCE AND CREATION AS PATHS TO ABSOLUTE FREEDOM

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts at providing a response to the controversy regarding the political manifesto hidden in the novel The Hooligans. The types of existence and experience depicted in the novel lead to a better understanding of the appropriate paths of survival in history suggested by the author, without the risk of identity loss, through breaking patterns and crossing over boundaries. The hooligan is the youngster who respects nothing, who lives the experience and turns experiences into objectives, the young man who lives under the pressure of the tragic. These experiences are necessary and compulsory for existence, but especially for creation and freedom. One of the main characters, Petru Anicet wants to create and to be free; he seeks and finds triumph through the power of creation and by ignoring history. The only way of existence valid for him is creation, and by creation, he comes to understand and dominate fate. Hooliganism, through the absolute freedom it implies, can generate authentic spiritual living. The creator is the only one who can change the destiny of humankind, because he is aware of the existence of absolute truth and knows that he can reach it through creation. The author's message is that the authentic intellectual must refuse any political involvement, devoting himself to creation and thus defying the terror of history.

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