FROM THE PSEUDOJURNAL TO THE SANATORIUM JOURNAL ANTON HOLBAN-MAX BLECHER
FROM THE PSEUDOJURNAL TO THE SANATORIUM JOURNAL ANTON HOLBAN-MAX BLECHER

Summary/Abstract: One of the most spectacular expression formulas of the Romanian inter-war novel is the confessional literature, felt as an "immediate" link between reality and fiction. The biographical species are classified, depending on the nature of the discourse, in memoirs, autobiography, intimate diary, autobiographical novel, biographical essay and even antimemoirs. Of these, the journal is an aesthetic formula based on the accurate recording of events and experiences, while the distance between the time of production and the written record is minimalised. For Anton Holban, the authenticity represents, beyond a new literary convention, a sine qua non condition of literary existence. The Holbanian correspondence is impregnated by the vibration of life, as the need for direct communication is revealed, whereas the obsession of death completes a tragic picture in which the characters are struggling in suffering, and their inner crawl is thoroughly analysed. Under the sign of existential tragedy there is also the work of Max Blecher, the writer who became the "great sick" of the Romanian literature. He develops in his novels an obsession of disease as a landmark of an epic universe close to surrealism. The intensity and drama of feelings place the Blecherian novels in the interwar authenticist prose.

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