Direcțiile receptării operei lui Marin Preda în epoca sa

Abstract

The critical reception of one writer depends in most cases of the political or historical context in which his or her writings are written and published, may the context be auspicious or, on the contrary, may it stand under the sign of some restraints of ideological origin, which are meant to put their imprint in an overwhelming extent on the destiny of the writings and by consequence – on the writer’s destiny. Marin Preda’s literary work has benefited along the time of different attitudes from the literary criticism, whose chameleonic attitude can be explained from the historical and political point of view to which it was always confronted, because the critic’s voice was rarely the voice of a conscience and most of the times a voice of an ideology or of all sorts of complexes. Critics’ prejudgements concerning Preda’s work have led to controversies of getting his message and also to the need to clarify some dilemmas and concessions which the writer is supposed to have made in a moment of historical raving. Therefore, one can distinguish two moments, located on different levels of time,concerning the
interpretation of Preda’s work: the critical reception of his time and the current critical reception.