Vlad Iovita's Prose: from Rural Contingency to Existential Crises

Vlad Ioviță's true vocation is discovered with the publication of Trei proze (1971). The novella Se caută un paznic included in this volume is a first attempt at literary dystopia in our country, the author using humor and irony to unveil an artificial system with congenital cracks, powerless in the face of the impetuous energy of the authentic man. The other two novels and the writings published later focus on the existential crises of characters caught in the tribulations of erotic triangles. Blestemele and the poetry of eros, with their tumultuous challenges, are marked by an ambiguity always on the edge between violence and purity through the dramatic and at the same time lyrical interference of fatal passions and anguish, of impetuous love and death as cathartic liberation. Love as a raging demon with twists of exorcization raises Vlad Ioviță's narratives to the tension of an unmistakable style. The narrative voices of the hypersensitive characters interspersed with the cold and neutral authorial instance, endowed with a heightened sense of visual metaphor, turn a prose of admirable intellectual finesse.