Autenticitate gidiană în romanul românesc interbelic66

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the way in which the concept of Gidian authenticity is received during the interwar. Two main trends are being highlighted: the analysis of the concept proper, in reference to the works of the French novelist (Demostene Botez, Emil Gulian), and the identification of a dialogue between the Gidian works and the novelistic option taken by certain Romanian writers (Camil Petrescu and Mircea Eliade, actually a reference made by G. Călinescu). In addition, starting from Camil Petrescu and Mircea Eliade’s articles on authenticity, complemented with Eugen Simion’s idea formulated in Ficțiunea jurnalului intim [The Fiction of Personal Diary], which construes authenticity as a relative concept that acquires validity with each and every narrative, one notes that Camil Petrescu advocates substantial authenticity, while Mircea Eliade associates the concept with the inauthenticity of the fictional characters and with the insertion of certain Existentialist theories within the novel discourse.