RECONFIGURING THE PERSONAL HISTORY IN HORIA LOVINESCU’S DRAMATURGY
RECONFIGURING THE PERSONAL HISTORY IN HORIA LOVINESCU’S DRAMATURGY

Summary/Abstract: Surprisingly, for Horia Lovinescu, the Communist regime meant standing out from obscurity. Member of a soundly family in the Romanian Literature, the author of The Broken Citadel is unable to add value to his family’s literary inheritance only by means of his collaboration with the authorities and by creating plays that reflect the ideology of the unique political party. Many of Horia Lovinescu’s plays wouldn’t resist a contemporary lecture or a dramatising. Read, played and appreciated at their appearance, these works lose their meaning with the passing of the time being more distant from the reader’s interiority as the Communism is not any more part of his reality. These plays remain documents tracing an epoch, works with little literary value, proofs of the way in which a writer could survive those changing times. The Forth Season (Al patrulea anotimp) is one of the plays that illustrate the multiple faces that the characters should have embodied in order to cope with History.

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