ANTON HOLBAN- COMMUNICATION AND ITS (DIS)ILLUSION
ANTON HOLBAN- COMMUNICATION AND ITS (DIS)ILLUSION

Summary/Abstract: Anton Holban expects writing to bring in salvation, namely the perfect communication, yet, at the same time, writing is the fatal gesture. The author is the prisoner of his own aesthetic writing. He thinks that existence itself compromises art, forcing art to fit into its most reduced expression, compressing it. His attempt is more radical and less refined than that of Camil Petrescu. Holban’s authenticity means to sacrifice his oeuvre if it does not respect the absolute requirements of his aesthetics, such as nude sincerity. The presence of death, as a motif, gyrates around communication. The end means the impossible dialogue. It seems that Holban needs the touch of reality in order to fuel his vicious circle. His introspection is nourished by life, life in turn gets verified and authenticated afterwards through analysis. Holban as narrator of his own correspondence is more authentic than Sandu, his character of three novels. Anton Holban’s life and oeuvre are a mere sequence of impossibilities. Sandu wants to live simultaneously his concrete, unmediated life and the one resulting from his spiritual solitude, his abstract life.

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