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"THE MOST BELOVED OF EARTHLINGS" - EPIC OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
"THE MOST BELOVED OF EARTHLINGS" - EPIC OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

Author(s): Ingrid Cezarina-Elena Ciochină
Subject(s): Novel, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: love; literature; epic; philosophy; essayistic novel;

Summary/Abstract: The various types of novel that "The most beloved of earthlings" meets are: subjective, urban, political, historical, modern, romance, essayistic novel. As an essay novel, "The most beloved of earthlings" is individualized by the numerous fragments in which the emphasis falls on the meditation on some philosophical or literary problems, in which Petrini, a philosopher by training, together with various people of culture, discusses and anticipates the times to come. These represent the philosophical and essayistic substance of the novel. The political novel also goes through several stages in shaping the era. Petrini, a professor of philosophy at the university, appears as an individual incapable of compromise in a world in which cultural values were rejected, in the obsessive decade. The epic of human existence is therefore built around multiple directions the novel meets in order to display a complex and loyal view of an authentic reality.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 31
  • Page Range: 310-316
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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