Omul între paradis și infern : reflecții despre romanele istorice ale lui Emilian Stanev [Articol]

Abstract

The article discusses Emilian Stanev historical novels, focusing on the complex nature of characters, of Bulgarian man from the past centuries, from the period of social and political cataclysms, who represents the agitated man, desirous for knowledge, being in a permanent search, tormented by doubts, lost between purity and sin, between faith and its denial, divided between pagan and Christian aspirations, the being who discovers in himself both the presence of Light and that of Darkness, who from his own experience comes to understand that the existence unity is built from the contrasts dialectics, when good and evil lose the boundaries delimiting them. He is the man crucified between God and Satan, who passes through the knowledge purgatory, realizing that one who has found Paradise also inherits Hell. The same paradigm also includes reflections/questions on nature of art (in this case, of painting) as a source of knowledge (beneficial, purifying or/and corruptible, tempting; free or serving religion and politics) of world and man.