Valeriu Anania. Despre „a îndrăzni”
Valeriu Anania. On “daring”

Summary/Abstract: V. Anania’s play ”The Pearl Thief” is a dramatization of the well-known biblical parable of the Prodigal Son and it even preserves, at the level of the surface structure, the patterns of the support text. But the metamorphosis of the parable’s content begins from this very first level, on which the author’s own surprizing personal intrusions become conspicuous. First, he changes the title, suggesting that the matter might be different. Another intrusion consists in his naming the places where the events unfold; he also increases the number of characters and gives them symbolical names (Ely, Eliabar, Rimon, Ariadna, Humbaba, Critias), resorting to the mythological, biblical or literary/philosophical inventory, thus confirming, but most of the time radically changing, turning upside down, the name symbolism in the mentioned sources. The characters’ names are not arbitrarily chosen; in fact, they trigger the text’s semiotic process, building the articulations of the deep structure. It is at this level that the author’s vision discreetly displaces the scene of the action, placing it either in the sphere of the mundane, or on a transcendent plane, skilfully using the principle of the correspondence between the two levels. The implications of this kind of approach and the conveyed message surprize the reader/the spectator by their complexity, by the depth of the mystery, by daring and novelty.

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