Aspects of Constantin Fantaneru’s Memorialistic Prose

Abstract

Side memoir of Constantin Fantaneru’s texts is a reflection of life and activity of a Romanian controversial intellectual, whose work begins to be revalued in contemporary critical perception. It requires attention, on the one hand, autobiographical texts of neat edition of Aurel Sasu Carti si o alta carte [Books and another book], that demonstrates writer’s propensity for literature and the attention paid to the aesthetic effects by adopting a playfulevocative style sometimes with dramatic accents and, on the other hand, the novel Slujba din hol [Lobby Service] with foreshadowing subjective portraits of some interwar personalities. Fragments of Memorial are full of retrospective impressions and writer’s considerations about literature, the word being essential in configuring world representation. The texts from Pagini [Pages] are “fleeting notations, without stylize”, fragments of a solitary life, coupled with introspections and existential reflections, also with brief analyzes of some literary works and artistic trends of the period. Selfreferential speech aims to define the writer himself compared with the others and opens to history and events, actually lived once and subsequently transformed into art.