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sorin Parvu. The Romanian Novel. Kurt W. Treptow, pref. Cluj, Romania. East European Monographs (Columbia University Press, distr.). 1994 ((C) 1992). vii + 161 pages. $44.50.
A lament of Romanian literature is that it is so little known abroad. In this brief volume, Sorin Parvu introduces his readers to nineteen Romanian novels that deserve to be recognized in the context of world literature.
Parvu treats each of the novels in a separate chapter and in chronological order: Nicolae Filimon's Bourgeois Old and Nev (1863); Ioan Slavici's Mara (1906); Duiliu Zamfirescu's Tanase Scatiu (1907); Liviu Rebreanu's Ion (1920), The Forest of the Hanged (1922), and The...