Problematica teatralității în romanele lui Camil Petrescu [Articol]

Abstract

This article is focused on Camil Petrescu’s transition from theatre to prose writing, a transition that came as a consequence of a big failure in his theatre career, one that will haunt him for the rest of his life: the failure of what may be seen as some minor play, Mioara. In fact, he will return again and again to this episode of his life, as he felt that the press campaign that followed it attempted to destroy his reputation as a writer of drama and his legitimacy as a theatre theoretician. The result of all there is a fracture in his vision that makes him abandon the love of his life (the theatre) and embrace prose writing, a scriptural space much more fit for his growing radical individualism.