Taming Evil. Romanian Tales
06/2000
The entire taming of evil through tolerant playfulness may be a specific trait of Orthodoxy, different from both the excessive, heretic fiber of Protestantism and the moralizing rigor and disciplined severity of Catholicism. The permanent moral censorship, the muffler invariably applied to any stridence makes Romanian literature nurture mainly bashfulness - never overwhelming sexuality; lyricism, the thirst for the fabulous, magic realism and the oneiric prevail over violent psycho-behavioral touches; and the pathological is especially relished from the eccentric angle of the unexplainable, dark picturesque, rather than the veristic angle of the zest for describing excess in itself.

Dan C. MIHĂILESCU
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