Mihail Sadoveanu – Narrator of the Romanian Village

The Romanian village from the first half of the twentieth century is more than a place, it is a living body, full of meaning, symbols, life,  colour, suffering, knowledge. Mihail Sadoveanu insists on showing us all these things in his works, in recording all the aspects related to this world, before it being swallowed by progress and oblivion. What we do in this article is an analysis of Sadoveanu's literature and a presentation of some aspects of the Romanian village, seen by Sadoveanu’s artistic vision, but also real aspects and features recorded by documents and archives preserved since then.

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