THE NOVEL ŞANTIER – AN AUTOFICTION READ IN THE GRID OF AUTHENTICIST AESTHETICS
THE NOVEL ŞANTIER – AN AUTOFICTION READ IN THE GRID OF AUTHENTICIST AESTHETICS

Summary/Abstract: In the early 30s, Romanian literature is entering a period of creative effervescence characterized by epic productions of value, but tributary to the model of objective realism. The younger generation, led by Mircea Eliade, proposes renewing literature by giving up the traditional omniscient narrator's model and imposing a narrative model to capture the existential itself, in the manner of a unliteralised confession. Shortly after returning from the Indian stay, the young Mircea Eliade, an advocate of authenticity in literature, published in 1935 the volume Șantier (Work in Progress), subtitled indirect novel; a book nourished from the sap of his existential diary, in which a subjective narrator assigns a character (called paradoxically Mircea Eliade) a series of adventures we do not know if they happened in reality. Adopting the tone of an absolute sincerity, enforcing the primacy of real fact, the author of the text in this book imagines a life and a personality that is not entirely his thus transfiguring the Indian existence in an autofiction manner.

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