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Having as a starting point the Romanian interwar novel “Adela”, by G. Ibrăileanu, this text is a part of the doctoral thesis “Eros and Thanatos - paradigms of the development of femininity in the Romanian interwar novel on film”.
Conceived as a diary, the novel captures the failed attempts of Dr. Emil Codrescu, aged almost 40, to balance the following: on the one hand, his sensory perception, felt during the time spent with Adela (the daughter of family friends, aged 20), in her ambiguous, timid or bold responses in the dialogues they had, and on the other, the inner analysis of the messages transmitted by the young woman.
Adela wraps him in her feminine mystery, with the exuberance with which she lives every moment of life, but the mature man lets himself be dominated by reasoning and is self-peaced with the excuse that he is too old to experience love that has come too late.
| Presenting author | MĂDĂLINA EUGENIA CIUCU (RĂSNICEANU) |
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