Grey Building Blocks and Brueghel: The Canvas of Romania Painted by Mircea Dinescu Cover Image

Bloques grises y Brueghel: el lienzo de Rumanía pintado por Mircea Dinescu1/
Grey Building Blocks and Brueghel: The Canvas of Romania Painted by Mircea Dinescu

Author(s): Alexandra Cherecheș
Subject(s): Poetry, Romanian Literature
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: Mircea Dinescu; Contemporary Romanian Poetry; Literature and Poetry; Brueghel the Elder;

Summary/Abstract: “Prin oraşul păscut de tramvaie / unde grâul e doar musafir” (“In the city cropped by the tramways / where the wheat is only a host”): be it in the urban or the rural space (or in a combination of both), Mircea Dinescu shows the social and political history of Romania with a bittersweet, playful and scathing view. Among his stylistic achievements we can find the creation of a genuine poetic language that breaks in the Romanian literature at the end of the 20th century. In his verses, life and its contraries (death, dictatorships) come together in a mosaic that constantly engages in dialogue with painting, more precisely, with Brueghel.

  • Issue Year: 2/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-58
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Spanish