Forms of myth in the prose of Dumitru Radu Popescu

Abstract

Dumitru Radu Popescu is one of the most prominent figures of the generation that debuted at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. At that time, Romanian literature had a privileged position in society as it shaped public opinion in a certain way. Although they were subject to censorship, some writers found ways to escape ways to escape it (together with propagated aesthetic doctrine of socialist realism) by letting fantasies, mysticism, pagan mythology, and symbolism enter their prose. The archetypes of universal literature – life, death, time, creation, and eternity – are undoubtedly an organic and vital source of inspiration for D. R. Popescu. His literary work is extremely rich and successful from the point of view of the themes and the motifs presented and the novelty of its construction and style.