EPIC AND EPOS IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL THE JDERS BROTHERS
EPIC AND EPOS IN THE HISTORICAL NOVEL THE JDERS BROTHERS

Summary/Abstract: Mihail Sadoveanu treats history not as a reality that belongs to immemorial times, but as a phenomenon that is in continuous movement and evolution. The writer meditates on the facts of national history from the perspective of the future, of a permanent contemporaneity. The medieval history of Moldova during the reign of Stephen the Great is a chain of intrigues, crimes and wars, which only the wisdom and strong authority of the ruler manage to avoid, even if he has to fight against so many external forces. The existing life at the royal court together with the servants and those who live there are described with great talent and unparalleled artistic mastery by our great novelist. The Lord took care of his subjects like a father of sons, and the subjects loved and respected him like sons to a father. The integration of the destiny of the Jders family, in the extensive Sadovenian construction, is done with the aim of completing and highlighting both the greatness and personality of the ruler Stephen the Great, as well as to demonstrate the strength and endurance of the family at all levels of social and administrative organization.

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