Vintilă Horia. Exil și călătorii

Published in 1960, France, the novel God Was Born Exile (Dieu est né en exil) confirmed talent of its author, Romanian born Vintilă Horia, and also originality a writer who had to leave his native country after World War use foreign language (in fact, more than one: except from French, he wrote Spanish Italian). It is obvious, then, that general issue exile, Horia’s main preoccupation within entire literary work, reflects own tragic situation stands for difficult choices author make during lifetime. Often compared Mircea Eliade, Eugen Ionescu or Emil Cioran, contemporaries, Horia another important representative even if circumstances were less favorable as far reception work concerned. In Exile, Latin poet Ovid’s journey Tomis mirrors uprooting, but at same time expresses symbolic initiation – both protagonist author: eight years Ovid discovers not only fundaments Christian faith, way liberate himself all personal sorrows (and youthful vain desires) firmly believe art.