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A writer that defends the
condition of the realistic literature, Marin Preda considers that,
without notions like history, truth, reality, prose would make
no sense. He makes a literature inspired from the contemporary
realities, undertaking moral or existential themes in a highly dense
epic, that has settled Romanian prose on the terms of psychological
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"The only thing that
I remember very well is that at the age of 13 I became
self-conscious. I realized that there was inside me a certain being I
was aware of. I had just read The Bible and Descartes on
the common." |
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Marin Preda |
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"In Marin Preda's notes
on art, I could find two obsessions: one refers to the possibility of
the literary work to regain the totality of the human self, and the
second one refers to the act of creation itself. To write is for him, as
for Sartre, to discover the sense of the plenitude and totality that
exists in man, to make the individual feel essential comparing to the
Universe. Preda is not a man of fragmentariness, he is a man of
totality, as Malraux, Camus, and once again, as Sartre." |
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Translated from
Simion, Eugen (1985). Sfidarea retoricii. Bucuresti: Cartea
Românească |
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All texts translated by © Gustav
Demeter |
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