THE POWER OF POSITIVE WRITING ABOUT EXILE: VINTILĂ HORIA NOVELIST
THE POWER OF POSITIVE WRITING ABOUT EXILE: VINTILĂ HORIA NOVELIST
Author(s): Luiza MarinescuSubject(s): Novel, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Vintilă Horia; Romanian novelist; postwar exile; Goncourt prize; Romanian literature;
Summary/Abstract: The power of positive writing about exile is one of the major habits of the successful writers. About the gulag and exile, as a concentratory form of discovering the happiness of salvation from the ostrogoths few authors had the talent to write, combining livresque, with the symbolic. Vintilă Horia was preoccupied with bringing together in the pages of his books the discoveries of the physics of the twentieth century and with the philosophical and literary implications of the modification of the worldview of contemporary man. The present study aims to point out the trajectory of a spiritual destiny of a writer who, after a career on the rise in the interwar period, after the creation of the magazine "Meşterul Manole" symbolic myth of the Romanian culture, the writer in exile in the post-war period, as a voluntary form of defense against the persecution that sentenced him to forced labor for life, he literarily capitalized on this experience of exile in his own country as punishment, plague, persecution, proscription, proscription, banishment, expulsion, deportation, persecution and refuge. In the geometry of exile there are concentric circles regarding the Romanian exile, because the liberation from a circle involves entering a circle with a slightly larger radius, but as round and perfect as the first. Believing in himself as a gifted writer, his philosophy of life does not ignore the life-s problems in exile, but rather explains the problems and their solutions in a practical and mythological approach of life in exile and its full potential. In his novels and his work of creative writing and spiritual living Vintilă Horia offers to the humanity the best example of writer who fulfilled his destiny even in exile.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 30
- Page Range: 402-412
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Romanian