MIHAIL SEBASTIAN (1907-45) AND LEISURE SPORT PRACTICES IN THE 1930s’ ROMANIA

Abstract

The question is, within the work of the Romanian novelist and dramatist Mihail Sebastian (1907-45), to explore the investment of certain social groups in leisure sport practices in the 1930s’ Romania. These social groups are the author’s proper ones, or with which he as relationships, and all the characters of his literary work: intellectuals, professions, artists and architects, etc. These fictive or real individuals live in Bucharest, the capital, and invest practices in peripheral spaces (mountain or sea resorts) in year special times. In the other hand, the fact to wear sport clothes is often underlined, and the word “sport’ to is often used by the author to describe a body, an attitude or a psychological character.