Abstract:
This article has as object of study the interpretive analyses of the realist novel Șatra by Zaharia Stancu, a work that has as theme the hard fate of a community, that of „sheepish people”, passed through the ordeal of their life and existence. Sheep people are subjected to hard trials, as a result of which they end up in a wasteland that marks their lives, endangers their health, endures hunger, deprivation, cold. All this affects them and disturbs their peace and quiet in the community. The sharecroppers no longer obey their chief, defying the internal laws of the sharecropper imposed by the ages. The difficult trials to which the members of this collective are subjected have tragic consequences, leading to disintegration, loss and death. The reality of the novel is elucidated not only through shocking moments and through events that affect emotionally, but also through the heroes who pretend to be actors in a tragic show. The research carried out aims to highlight the cruel reality through which the characters of the novel have passed, but also the way in which the author Zaharia Stancu managed to present literary artistic the hardness of life and human existence.
