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LumeniŃa Drugă
University of Bacău, Romania
Spaces of revelling
and travelling in Mihail Sadoveanu’s text 17
Seen not only from the outside but also from the inside, from different merging
perspectives Sadoveanu’s text is a great tale, a monad whose thousands of
aspects lead to one main nucleus of significations irradiating with embodied or
reinvented values. The greatness of a prose writer lies in the “quantity” of life he
recreates, in the narrative point of view he uses, in his capacity to build up new
situations and immortal characters. Sadoveanu is the creator of some major
“characters” in Romanian literature, such as the inn and the pub that become
literary motifs when brought to life by “the last great and vibrant Moldavian
chronicler: Sadoveanu” 18 .
The aim of this paper is to present the inn, the pub and the peasant’s
house, identities that can be characterized by means of common and essential
semes “closed space”, “covered space”, + “built space”, + “space to be lived” as
sociopetal and sociofungal spaces of revelling and travelling, depending on the
mood of the characters and on the atmosphere created by the stories. It is the act
of telling that brings together all the travellers and that works as a sociopetal
element in Sadoveanu’s texts.
17 The paper was first published in the Romanian language in the volume entitled The House –
A Symbol of Cultural Identity, “Alma Mater” Publishing House, Bacău, 2006. By Text we
mean all Sadoveanu’s creations dealing with such spaces of revelling and travelling, while
text refers to a single short-story.
18 Mihail Sadoveanu lived from 1880 to 1961. He wrote novels, short-stories, tales in which
he recreated the life of the Moldavian topos, tracing its identity particularly through
language, traditions and history.
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