ALEXANDRU IVASIUC. CLASSIC AND MODERN IN THE PROSE OF THE '70S
ALEXANDRU IVASIUC. CLASSIC AND MODERN IN THE PROSE OF THE '70S

Summary/Abstract: Alexandru Ivasiuc's novels (The Vestibule (1967), Interval (1968), Night Knowledge (1969), Birds (1970), Water (1973), Enlightenment (1975), and Cancer (1976)) bring to the Romanian literature of the '60 taste of debates of ideas and the investigation of existential crisis states, in the tradition of interwar essay prose and psychological analysis. Ivasiuc was often blamed for the dryness of the epic construction, in which the characters become, especially in the early novels, simple pretexts for philosophical-theoretical confrontations between principles of abstract thinking. On the other hand, the way of the artistic vision and of the Romanian procedures - the technique of the inner monologue, the multiplication of the narrative perspectives and the renunciation of the omniscient narrator - It places Ivasiuc among the pioneers in a literature that still retains traces of proletarian cults.

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