ANTON HOLBAN'S CREATION IN AN EUROPEAN CONTEXT
ANTON HOLBAN'S CREATION IN AN EUROPEAN CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: As a writer belonging to a particular type, exersising “authenticity” or, defining his prose with a term that Petru Comarnescu coined “experientialism”, Anton Holban approached theoretically the genuine literature as plain recording of subjective experiences, along with Camil Petrescu, Mircea Eliade, Mihail Sebastian, Max Blecher, C. Fântâneru, Petru Manoliu, H. Bonciu. Developed in relation to the concept of “authenticity”, the literary art that Ioana’s author promotes sustains subjective experience, which is also tragic and genuine, sprung from inner feelings. A great admirer of some French authors like Proust, Gide or classical writers, Anton Holban made the attempts of the critics to include him in a certain formula very difficult, so he was accredited as descending from Rousseau, Amiel, Constant, Stendhal or even Proust, Gide, Huxley. The attempt proved to be even more difficult as Ioana’s author also pleaded in favour of authenticity, experience, sincerity, remaining in the same time an adept of the constraints of classical art, paying close attention to craft, proportion and inner harmony,

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