TRĂSĂTURI ALE BALCANISMULUI ÎN OPERELE SCRIITORILOR ROMÂNI DIN SECOLUL AL XX-LEA
CHARACTERISTICS OF BALKANISM IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF ROMANIAN 20THCENTURY AUTHORS

Summary/Abstract: Romanian critics have defined Balkanism as an aesthetic attitude. It represents a synthesis of many Mediterranean cultures. Basically, it is imbued with the tragic accents caused by the fall of the great Byzantine empire. In the Romanian literature, the main features of Balkanism are: the propensity to the epic species, the adaptation of the Byzantine rhetorical models, and the development of the oriental narrative. These Levantine stories are characterized by an arborescent structure and they usually contain a great number of parables. The characters of this fiction are less active and more contemplative. In the Romanian writers’ works of the 20th century, the image of a society which seems to work upside-down and the tragic feeling of losing the values of an ancient world, on the one hand, the picturesque descriptions and the mocking spirit, on the other hand, go side by side. Mihail Sadoveanu, Fănuș Neagu, Ștefan Bănulescu, Vasile Voiculescu, are writers whose works fully illustrate these features.

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