FALLING FROM MYTH INTO HISTORY IN VASILE VOICULESCU’S PROSE – A FEW OPENINGS
FALLING FROM MYTH INTO HISTORY IN VASILE VOICULESCU’S PROSE – A FEW OPENINGS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a few suggestions for a different reading of some of Vasile Voiculescu’s short stories, many of which have been written during the so-called „Obsessive Decade”, i.e. the ‘50s. In these circumstances, they contain a lot of elements that can be interpreted as subversive. Man, nature, history during communism and truth in mythical, irrespectively historical sense create a crossroads of four dimensions of Voiculescu’s work, intersecting in this study. The world of ancient rural stories, myths, legends, superstitions comes into conflict with the cruel, absurd contemporary history. The writer used subversive language to cover the fact that he was speaking about real history and the way in which it crushed the spirit of the anti-Communist resistance, decimated, hidden in the mountains.

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