Psychological Realism and the “Ambassadors” of a Writer
This study aims to analyse a book published by Dana Dumitriu in 1976 – “The Ambassadors” or the Psychological Realism, and some of her articles concerning the same subject. Particularly, the essay from 1976 presents the most important features of the psychological realism, a sintagm that establishes the origins of this novel – the objective realism and the psychological prose, and that specifies its particularities – the objective point of view and the priority of the inner life.
The external author disappears and he is replaced by the character, who becomes the “ambassador” of the writer, a reflexive and a very sensitive person, the “fine central intelligence” as Henry James defined it. If the character of the analysis novel doesn’t change from a psychological point of view and the external events determine his inner life, for the psychological realism it is impossible to explain the internal universe according to the external world. This novel offers a unit of perspective, because the “ego” is the centre of the fictional universe. Different perspectives and many dialogues also appear, because the novelist presents many points of view, in order to be objective. So the novel is an “inconclusive prose”. The reader himself is asked to get into the novel, to find significance for the universe created by the “ambassador” of the writer.
Keywords: psychological realism, ambassador, inner life, psychological point of view, a unit of perspective, different perspectives, sensitive observer, the “fine central intelligence”, unreliable narrator, dramatization, inconclusive prose
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