THE POETICS OF CONFESSION IN ROMANIAN INTERWAR NOVEL
THE POETICS OF CONFESSION IN ROMANIAN INTERWAR NOVEL

Summary/Abstract: One of the most consistent phenomena displayed by Romanian interwar literature was the explosion of a confessive genre inside the evolution of novel-writing. The recurrent opinion of Romanian critics and writers in the first years after WW1 was that novel was synonymous with an objective outlook on existence. A bunch of confessive novels which contradicted this approach emerged in just a few years on a theoretical ground that was not ready to assimilate this novelty, hence hesitant in its definitions and restrictive in guidance. The present article follows the way in which a new literary convention, that of confessive novel, found its way through the evolution of interwar prose and launched several masterpieces. We refer to novels, irrespectively theoretical articles, written by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, Garabet Ibraileanu, Camil Petrescu, Eugen Lovinescu, Mihail Ralea.

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