Baltagul
A species of the epic genre in prose, of great extent, with many characters, illustrating several narrative plans and well-determined conflicts, in which the traditional elements dominate.
It dominates the traditional elements, as well as the capture of existential events (wedding, baptism, funeral), but also of rituals, myths (the myth of Isis and Osiris).
The author-narrator-character relationship is one of subordination, the perspective being objective and authorial along the entire narrative thread.
The dominant narrative technique is the descriptive pause, complemented by parallelism, introspection and involuntary memory.
The character is an exponential one for the place where he lives, taking over his features.
The structure of the novel is symmetrical, organized in sixteen chapters, and it can be seen that the prologue and epilogue have in center a mediating character, Vitoria Lipan, who at first is a narrator, peddler, telling a story with biblical tone told by her husband at parties. In the prologue, the dominant mode of exposition is the inner monologue, in antithesis to the end, when Victoria's monologue replica is addressed to Gheorghiţă and in which she expresses her attitude towards the events that will follow: the memorial, the return to Măgura Tarcăului and the fate of Minodora.
The novel has three distinct parts, which include a narrative thread unfolded on all moments of the subject: the first part, consisting of chapters I-VII, reproduces the expectation of Nechifor Lipan, the second part, of chapters VIII-XIII, illustrates the journey of Vitoria and Gheorghiţă from Măgura Tarcăului to Stănişoara mountain, where I find the body. In the third part, consisting of chapters XIV-XVI, the fulfillment of the funeral tradition and justice intervenes.
