Metamorfozele romanului românesc interbelic

If tradition can be considered the great aesthetic formula of realism, then there is no doubt the interwar Romanian novel is deeply indebted to it. Since for a literary movement as long-lasting as realism is it is not enough to point out its constancy during more than one century, it is more than mandatory, precisely because of its duration, to highlight the process of metamorphosis this literary movement went through from its classical, inaugural phase, which bears the decisive imprint of Balzac, to the modern phase between the two world wars, inevitably marked by the efflorescence of innovative artistic movements at the beginning of our century.