Destin și subdestin în romanele lui Marin Preda

Abstract

The characters in Marin Preda's novels are anchored in the objective history of the time they live in and become victims of circumstances that brutally transform their existence, canceling their natural right to happiness, after they had been left with the illusion that they were favoured by destiny itself. Călin Surupăceanu, the protagonist of the novel "The Intruder" and Victor Petrini, the main character of the novel "The most beloved man on Earth ", go through ecstasy down to agony, being forced by circumstances, at a time when nothing predicts the existential collapse. The way these characters which cross different records of existence are built projects them into a tragic dimension. Preda proves to be the partisan of the thinking one can encounter during the Greek antiquity, according to which man is twice guilty: once against the gods (a mistake they call “hamartia”) and secondly against his fellows through "hybris"(the unmeasured pride that darkens his reason). As a consequence of these errors, man must be subjected to a life and death experience in order to purify by suffering his high consciousness and in order for him to acquire,after the recognition of moral guilt, total wisdom and perfect contemplation, having access to the tragic metaphysical.