![]() ![]() ![]() His uncle and tutor, Costache Giurgiuveanu, is a rapacious old man who lives with his step- daughter Otilia, who in turn studies the piano at the Bucharest Conservatory. Felix is an orphan boy who arrives at his uncle’s house in Bucharest to study medicine. Made up twenty chapters, it follows the overlapping lives of different characters: Otilia’s quest for happiness, Felix Sima’s road to success, and the Tulea clan’s pursuit of fortune. ![]() ![]() "The novel is highly descriptive, with lengthy and at times convoluted sentences, and there is a preference for neologisms like 'fata juvenila' (juvenile face), 'aspect bizar' (bizarre aspect), and 'barbat chic' (chic man), which accounts for the modernity of the novel." One of his finest novels, Enigma Otiliei, was published in 1938, and it focuses on the bourgeoisie populating the capital city of Bucharest at the beginning of the 20 th century. George Calinescu was a Romanian novelist, critic, historian, academic, and journalist, whose work tends to be humanist and realist. ![]()
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