Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa (May 2023)
Marin Preda – from debut to celebrity
Abstract
MARIN PREDA – FROM DEBUT TO CELEBRITY This article deals with Marin Preda’s writings which precede the novel Moromeții (1955) and refers to the period in which the Romanian literature was under the inexorable pressure of politics. It is by chance only that, through its topic, Moromeții found itself in the wake of the events and consequences that occurred at the end of World War II, culminating in the establishment of communism in Eastern Europe. To a certain extent, these events are prefigured in the book. The publication of the volume in the cultural climate of that time corresponds to the period in which the authors were subject to the humiliation of passing through the Caudine Forks of socialist realism, while reception criticism would judge them using Inquisition-like methods. Preda’s early prose writings and Moromeții faced the situations above. Existentially, until the appearance of the novel that brought him fame, Marin Preda had experienced a tumultuous existence, full of failures and traumatising episodes
