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much in spite of its shattered aspect as it is there, where those he loves from the
depth of his heart, are: his wife and his children. For an ordinary being, a house
is like a shell (Bachellard 2005: 41). If the house is as impressive as a palace -
“next to the accacia trees that guard our palace” – it does not mean it is a
sociopetal space. For the young boyard in the Boyard’s Sin short–story, his
father’s house is not a cosy place: “I found nothing to do in that big, white,
empty house” […] “ I did not find anything to do and sad was I when I went to
bed in that empty house”. This is the reason why he goes to pubs in the evening,
to find company: “I came upon a gloomy empty pub which once upon a time
was crowded now touched by the silence of seclusion” (Boyard’s Sin p. 186)
and the loneliness of the young man’s heart in the attempt of doing something.
As he walks along searching for a pub, he reaches the place of Sandu Popescu,
a former artillery caporal who he finds the best person to go hunting with; it is
Marin, the hunter.
Since prehistoric times, man has lived adapting himself to two types of
space: the open space which sometimes exposes him to danger, and the closed
spaces which suffocates him. When he feels humbled, the man turns his back on
civilization and searches for a refuge. It is that very moment when the open
space opens its arms to receive and comfort him. This is the case with some of
Sadoveanu’s characters who feel offended by the cruelty of some of their
fellows and escape from the civilized world to find shelter in the middle of the
wild world. However, the new passion for hunting of NiculiŃă, the boyard, will
not be shared by all his acquaintances. He listens to Marin, a skilled hunter and a
morose man, who changed the real world for the wild one after a former boyard
insulted his wife and his family. The hunting paths take the young boyard to
SărăŃeni, reaching Marin’s house, where he meets his daughter Chiva, with a
feeling of amazement and joy: “Turning around, all of a sudden, I saw a light
gleaming on the other side. It was flickering like a red star. There is Marin’s
house. A low house, with a thatched roof that could hardly be seen in the dark.
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