DUNĂREA REVĂRSATĂ: RADU TUDORAN’S CUSTOMISED VERSION OF SOCIALIST REALISM
DUNĂREA REVĂRSATĂ: RADU TUDORAN’S CUSTOMISED VERSION OF SOCIALIST REALISM

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of the 1960s, Romanian literature was under the influence of the Communist Party. In order to be accepted, a literary work would have to choose its theme, characters and language from the working or rural environment. This was a literature for and about workers and peasants. Thus, novels were, at that time, inspired by such elements and Radu Tudoran’s Dunărea revărsată is not an exception. However, he does try to offer his readers a customized version of socialist realism, in a novel that combines the ideological demands of that time and the literary style that he was known for: a typical tudoranian female character will get entangled in a timid love story, mingled with sensational episodes, all on the background of the socialist construction at which she takes part. The result, although of no artistical value, is still a notable example of a writer’s efforts to keep his artistic integrity in difficult times.

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