Le moi et l’autre dans le roman psychologique roumain
The Self and the Other in Romanian Psychological Novel

Summary/Abstract: In the inter-war period, Romanian novelists imported from Western literature the techniques of the psychological novel. The exploration of subjectivity obliged them to develop polyphony and poly-perspectivism, experimenting with individual narrative points of view. As Camil Petrescu puts it, “I cannot evade myself… I can only speak truthfully in the first person”. This paper explores the relationship between identity and alterity in Romanian psychological novels within three significant creative periods: Inter-War Modernism, Communist Neo-Modernism, and, after 1989, Postmodernism.

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