Dragostea ca dorinta de posesiune intelectuală în proza narativă a lui Anton Holban

Abstract

The article discusses the problem of love perceived as a desire for intellectual possession of the woman in Anton Holban's narrative prose. Erotic relationship is maintained in the domain of psychological casuistry. The protagonist appears as an immature intellectual, obsessed with unravelling the woman's mystery that remains impenetrable. What he desires is not the woman, but the knowledge and the control of he r intimate life. Thus, the tension of Holban's novels does not result from emotion, but from excessive rationality.