Duiliu Zamfirescu şi teoria romanului work in progress
Duiliu Zamfirescu and the Theory of the „Work in Progress” Novel
– The Correspondence with Titu Maiorescu –
The study begins by observing the „creative contradiction” specific to Duiliu Zamfirescu’s personality: seduced by the aristocratical ideas and ideals, he has also tried for some time to closely imitate peasants’ life, ending by denying their quality of humans; his narrative project was oriented towards city novel, but he finally wrote Viaţa la ţară (Life in countryside), perfect novelistic model for his literary opononents. Şerban Axinte finds, in the letters Duiliu Zamfirescu wrote to Titu Maiorescu, explanations and suggestions which clarify most of this apparent contradictions.
Keywords: Romanian literature, Romanian prose at the end of the XIXth century, Duiliu Zamfirescu, Titu Maiorescu
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