THE ROMANIAN INTERWAR NOVEL
THE ROMANIAN INTERWAR NOVEL

DEFINITIONAL ATTEMPTS AND CONTROVERSIES

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by the European debates, Romanian literary theory focused on the problem of the novel during the fourth and the fifth decades of the twentieth century. Critics and prose writers representing different artistic directions came together to disapprove of the Romanian novel from a philosophical, social or ethnical perspective rather than from a literary one. While both traditionalists and modernists brought into question the very existence of the local epic creation, the latter succeeded in illustrating most of the modern trends and reached full maturity. Therefore, the theoretical dispute on the conditions of the novel seemed to suggest a nihilist passion specific to both traditional and modern Romanian literary thinking.

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