Mineralul și drumul spre propriul sine
The mineral and the path to the inner self

Summary/Abstract: The thematic register of the first two volumes of Radu Todoran’s lyrics, whith hedonism, light, shadow and vegetation as main aspects, is enriched, in the third volume, with the mineral. Through its roughness, the stone, the mineral, leads to the idea of dissolution, but through properties as cold and quiet, thus helping and leading the lyrical self to inner purification. A crisis of poetic consciousness follows, with an emotional dissolution, a breach induced by the changes in contemporary society, each time described with serious irony. Light, plant life and beloved appear sporadically, and only as a memory of past times marked by happiness and color. The vegetal, though luxurious, is overshadowed by the mineral which looks like petrifying everything, by strange animals and ancient gods.

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