THE HALLIPA FAMILY, BETWEEN MISALLIANCE AND HEREDITY
THE HALLIPA FAMILY, BETWEEN MISALLIANCE AND HEREDITY

Summary/Abstract: Aiming the idea that an ill person is the product of a certain family and atmosphere, I marked that in the Hallipa cycle heredity not only influences all the charactersř evolution, but it also blocks the perpetuation of the family, which will come to extinction within three generations. The biological decline, caused by marriages below social status, decomposes the characters and reflects the social universe of bourgeoisie intrusion among aristocracy. The triggering core of this dissolution is the hereditary factor, interpreted as disease. The hereditary malfunctions generate naturalist aberrations in the descendants and censure them to a closure towards both inner familial world and outer world, doomed to perish by all physical, social, moral, and aesthetic means. The degeneration is clinically recorded from the first novel of the series, and in the next novels all characters will have been destroyed by their past. In an exclusive consumerist society the individuals are first and foremost non-creators, their internal biography does not connect with the external one, and the biological malfunction takes the form of afiliations through crossbreeding, hybrids, bastards and all kinds of imbalanced sources. Ion Rotaru believed that the originality of Hortensia Papadat Bengescuřs novels relies on this particular study of degeneration.

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