Romanul românesc : Modele apusene și relevanța lor. Manoil, de Dimitrie Bolintineanu

Abstract

The novel appears and develops in the Romanian literature after the year 1848 through the assimilation of western models, especially those from the French literature and through the juxtaposition of elements belongong to the romantic convention of the genre – epistolary novel, sentimental novel, mystery novel – and the elements peculiar to to the convention of Balzacian or Stendhelian realism. Dimitrie Bolintineanu’s Manoil contributes the features of the literary prose of the epoch, i.e., the poetism and the lyrical enunciation as well as the ethical thesis of the novel.