OBSESSIVE FORMS OF JEALOUSY IN THE NOVEL ”IOANA”
OBSESSIVE FORMS OF JEALOUSY IN THE NOVEL ”IOANA”

Summary/Abstract: The Obsession with self-knowledge at any time in life is the cause of the misfortune of the Holbanian character. The desire to be able to give meaning to any experience or gesture is the main preoccupation of the hero who puts forward even love, the organic need to know everything about everything. However, despite the efforts made, the result can only be unsatisfactory, because new and new challenges always arise. A form of knowledge of the self, of the limits of supportability of suffering is jealousy, a theme frequently encountered especially in the erotic trilogy. Sandu is jealous when he claims he does not love, and when he is in love (Ioana), and when she does not respond with the same intensity to his love affections, (Daniela's Games). In the novel Ioana, jealousy reaches paroxysm, all the more, since there is the certainty of an adultery and that is not without Sandu's complicity. Excitedly exasperated by her boyfriend's tyrannical behavior, Ioana deliberately succumbs to a mediocre guy in the hope that he will be able to free himself from a love affair that causes hers suffering. He fails to forget Sandu and resumes the relationship after three years of intense kinks, but the true torment is just starting now. The hero cannot forget the adventure of his ex-girlfriend, who has sinned and tries to find out from her, every detail of the period when they were separated.

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