THE "OBSESSIVE PRESENT"
THE "OBSESSIVE PRESENT"

Summary/Abstract: Augustin Buzura's novels are important landmarks of post-war Romanian literature. In these narratives one can observe the prevalence of the ethics of truth over aesthetics, in a deep, complex and disturbing epic structure, with the tragic imprint of the Individual-History equation and, above all, the demanding appeal to the responsibility of individual or collective memory. Throughout the process of searching for their own identity, the protagonists of the novels retain their lucidity, even if their interrogations run up against the wall of alienation, indifference and fear, Buzura's novels tenaciously follow this adventure of the heroes' search for the meaning of truth, resulting in a true transfiguration of their destiny. A novel of the everyday and of history, a parable of existence and an indictment of a dissolving political system, Vocile nopţii reveals the writer's questioning of destiny through a lucid and serious meditation on the roles and utterances of human beings in themselves and in the world.

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