AESTHETIC VALUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUNCTIONAL DEPICTIONS AT DUILIU ZAMFIRESCU
AESTHETIC VALUES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUNCTIONAL DEPICTIONS AT DUILIU ZAMFIRESCU

Summary/Abstract: Current semiotic explorations, related to the meanings of communication and the specific framework of texts, and also to the behaviour of the receiver, have imposed today, almost unanimously, the principle of approaching the literary text as an open work. Reread today from this perspective, Duiliu Zamfirescu's short stories and novels gain unexpected qualities and dimensions. First of all his novels do not refuse an analytical, psychological, social, affective, artistic approach as they build a system of significant links for the atmosphere and mentalities of the time. In Duiliu Zamfirescu's aesthetic conception, the analytical is subordinated to creation, this being the reason why he opted for a classical realism, in the Balzacian manner, in which the analytical integrates with the harmonic beauty, with the aim of creating living and possible types. Duliu Zamfirescu's contacts, both with the large-scale works of the 19th century novelists and also with the new aesthetic ways, made him notice that literature cannot develop fruitfully within strictly local limits and predict its orientation towards that essence later called the end of an age.

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