Portrait de l’écrivain amoureux : Marin Preda vu par Aurora Cornu

Abstract

The paper aims at analyzing the conversations between Eugen Simion and Aurora Cornu, published
in The portrait of the enamoured writer. Marin Preda. It is a dialogue between two writers, but more than that, it
is a dialogue between a good friend and literary critic and once the wife of another writer, Marin Preda,
regarded in different times and from different perspectives. The conversations are eventually transformed into a
book, but nevertheless manage to retain the particularities of speech: the improvisation, intended and
unintended repetitions, fragmented presentations, discontinuity and side topics. The result proves to be nothing
less than remarkable: the dialogue captures the intellectual society of the 1950s and also adds interesting
elements to the portrait of such a well known and spoken about writer.