COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN ROMANIAN SHORT STORIES
COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN ROMANIAN SHORT STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Romanian literature has offered great and artistically startling short stories. The European reader knows little about Romanian fiction. This paper presents important mythical, narrative and stylistic details regarding two short stories written by MirceaEliade and Marin Preda during the period which followed World War Two. They are authors of famous novels, but they also wrote extremely successful short stories dealing with diverse issues. Trying to highlight these Romanian achievements, we comment upon the works of MirceaEliade and Marin Preda. They wrote attractive and challenging short stories with undoubted mythological and philosophical implications; this paper is concerned with two short stories: With the Gypsy Girls, – M. Eliade,The Horse – M. Preda). It specifies the fruitful interrelations between subtle significances, interesting insights into Romanian folklore, myths and specific philosophical aspects related to both writers. The sudden intervention of unexpected events is supported by incident schemes and specific stylistic and narrative strategies. We comment upon prerogative perspective which is important for referential continuity. We also highlight the impersonal vision (Marin Preda) and the diffuse perspective implying temporal compressions, imbrications and contagions (MirceaEliade). One of the main objectives of this approach is to present literary and cultural activities next to the influences framing Romanian society and the national literary context in addition to local cultural circumstance.

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