THE GAME OF ANTINOMIES IN CAMIL PETRESCU’S THEATRE
THE GAME OF ANTINOMIES IN CAMIL PETRESCU’S THEATRE

Summary/Abstract: Camil Petrescu’s play is relevant for the fervor thinking of the author under the sign of an ideational absolute in thought and in act. He substantiated the theory of „necessary noocracy” according to which the intelligence never mistakes, all the mistakes are historical. The character’s portrait and evolution through life is presented by means of family, affective, ethical and itself antinomies. Ruscanu’s drama grows from the interior; it manifests in his consciousness and represents the consequence of the antinomy between the idea of absolute justice and its possibilities of concrete application in social real life. He, thus, dramatically understands that he is an inadequate from a historical, social and moral point of view because of his beliefs that will bring him to his moral dissolution. He finds suicide as a lucid act of consciousness, the strength to stay alone in front of the thought of death and not as an act of surrender in front of the society.

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