CRITICAL RECEIPT OF AURELIAN BUSUIOC’S NOVELS

Emilia GRIGORAŞ Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

Author of no less than eleven novels published in both the totalitarian and post-totalitarian (post-Soviet) period, during over four and a half decades (from 1966 to 2012), Aureliu Busuioc is rightly considered the creator of the modern novel in Bessarabia. And the theme of this essay is precisely to highlight the way in which the Romanian creation of Aureliu Busuioc was received by literary critics and historians from the two Romanian states - the Republic of Moldova and Romania. As it can be seen - we hope - from the excerpts reproduced below, Aureliu Busuioc's novels have stirred literary critics and historians to issue a series of thoughts and meditations, that have sometimes been contradictory, but always profound, and meaningful. Keywords: novel, excerpts, literary criticism and history, socialist realism, founder, modern, totalitarian, exegesis.