The ROLE OF THE STYLISTIC ELEMENTS IN CONDOTIERA BY C.V. GHEORGHIU

Abstract

The literary work created by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu during his Parisian exile places the spiritual values of the Romanian people at the forefront, and promotes the idea that the 20th century is establishing the ethics of the “new man”. The novel La Condottiera (Plon, 1967) denounces totalitarianism and all the ideological mechanisms founded in Romania after August 23rd 1944, and turns into
a profound meditation on the drama of the “citizen” annihilated by Soviet terror. The fundamental aim of our study is to identify the stylistic marks that enrich this novelistic text. We will analyze the recurrence of one or more stylistic devices employed in the narrative discourse and/or in the characterization of characters, and highlight the importance of the stylistic facts identified and their function. We will also look at the role of the mechanisms that operate analogies, restrictions, enlargements and substitutions in this text (through comparison, epithet, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, symbol, personification etc.). Decoding the message that the bookish universe of La Condottiera conveys through these elements, can bring out a new reading, a new interpretation, an inventory of unexpected meanings of the
novel in question.