THE IMPORTANT RECURRING THEMES OF OCTAVIAN PALERʼS PROSE AND ESSAYS
THE IMPORTANT RECURRING THEMES OF OCTAVIAN PALERʼS PROSE AND ESSAYS

Summary/Abstract: The themes of Octavian Palerʼs prose and essays are part of the writer's existence and belong to an assumed and experienced reality. Being in a perpetual state of loneliness, dominated by existential "deserts", Octavian Paler develops true obsessions related to loneliness, to indulgement into melancholy, to time, to death, etc., perhaps because of his proverbial pessimism, but also of his conversion to existentialism, being the proclaimed follower of Albert Camus. One can notice in Octavian Paler's writings some recurring themes like the solitude, the emptiness, the fear, the terror, the dream, the silence, the waiting, the time, the faith, the sea, love, the creator's condition, etc., that define him as a writer and shape him as a man.

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