Romanul contemporan din Sud-estul Europei: între societal şi literaritate

This article addresses two phenomena of contemporary literature from Southeastern Europe: the assertion of the novel of social persuasion and of the novel of manners. The authors focus their attention on the woman’s fate and the child’s fate in the contemporary world. Social and domestic violence against the woman and the child psychological and physical abuse are thematic axes in the novels of Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko, Romanian novelist and writer Doina Ruşti, and the Romanian writer, from Republic of Moldova, Liliana Corobca.