Abstract:
Alexandru Robot’s novel Music-hall, a Bessarabian by adoption, is very little known in our literary environment. Although it was written at an almost adolescent age, during the period (1936-1940) when Robot (1916-1941) was not yet 25 years old, the novel confirms the author’s artistic maturity and a special predilection for psychological prose. Alexandru Robot searches for the triggers of the dance in the subconscious of the dancers. He tries to understand how dance influences the movements of the soul, how it awakens instincts, how it sharpens the subconscious of the partners. In this novel, dance has the effect of accumulating and repressing instinctual motions.
