THE EBBS OF WATER-TIME INTERACTIONS IN ALEXANDRU VLAD’S NOVEL “PLOILE AMARE” (BITTER RAINS)
THE EBBS OF WATER-TIME INTERACTIONS IN ALEXANDRU VLAD’S NOVEL “PLOILE AMARE” (BITTER RAINS)

Summary/Abstract: “Ploile amare” (“Bitter Rains”) by Alexandru Vlad is a novel that has triggered an interesting phenomenon: all Romanian critics found the time to read it carefully. It has also triggered an unusual appetite of the critics to dwell into a fictional universe. They did not want to vivisect it, on the contrary they wanted to get indulged in its fictitious universe. This is a novel that intelligently lets time flow within itself. Apparently it is a return to tradition, to the canons of the realism full of vigor. So far, the novel has been read in a variety of keys. It is one of the best pieces of Romanian literature. The characters are the prisoners of a village under the communist regime risking to be cut off from humanity. New forms of power and power-gendered techniques emerge in such a universe. Exposed to such a degree to the rains of outpouring heavens, man cannot be indifferent to religious issues.

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