A PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL, APPARENTLY FOR CHILDREN: JOHNNY BOAMBĂ, BY THEODOR CONSTANTIN
A PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL, APPARENTLY FOR CHILDREN: JOHNNY BOAMBĂ, BY THEODOR CONSTANTIN

Summary/Abstract: Published for the first time in 1968 and becoming almost unknown in the 90‘, the novel Johnny Boambă (by Theodor Constantin) is republished in 2008 by „Adevărul Holding‖ Publishing House, this latest edition confirming the actuality of its subject and bricking it in attention of the readers. The book has not become a bestseller and that it‘s why, in 2016, its prize is reduced in hypermarkets. In the absence of adequate commercials, an affirmation of the editor has conducted us to a possible explication of the low popularity of the book: ―Frustrations of the abandoned child would be reflected even later in some of his writings.‖1 Such an observation is connected with biographical criticism, considered antiquated nowadays, and discourages a potential reader to become reader indeed. Considering this novel a precious source of inspiration for the parents and for the educators, we try to reanalyze it (our first short presentation of this novel being done in 2006), in order to increase, in this way, the number of its readers.

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