| Title: | Mască şi societate – valori onomastice la Miroslav Krleža |
| Author: | Carmen Dărăbuș |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 915 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | [Mask and society. Miroslav Krleža: Onomastic values] In the first half of the twentieth century, literature was aimed at problematising the idea of existence. The absurd of Franz Kafka’s novels, the Sartrian disgust, the quest for the substance of life (in the manner of Albert Camus), the deconstruction of absurd theatre, the masks of the commedia dell’arte in search of truth (Luigi Pirandello), and, furthermore, Henrik Ibsen’s theatre had a strong influence on the entire European literature. In Miroslav Krleža’s novel, On the Edge of Reason (Na rubu pameti, 1938, the second volume in his trilogy), one can find echoes of all the aforementioned artistic movements, which have in common the relationship between the human individual and the society, the conflicts between his/her principles and the entrenched biases of the social environments, in which the wearing of a mask is a condition for survival. The core of the novel (narrated in the first person) is the identity crisis that the nameless character undergoes, the struggle to regain his dignity, which was crushed by the masks of others. |
| Key words: | rationality, absurd, mask, authenticity |
| Language: | Romanian |
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