Valeriu Anania, o perspectivă creştină asupra Luceafărului eminescian
Valeriu Anania, a Christian perspective on Eminescu’s poem Luceafărul

Summary/Abstract: The present study outlines the Christian touch in Eminescu’s creation, according to the writer Valeriu Anania’s analyzes. It is generally considered that Mihai Eminescu’s poetic work is marked by the overwhelming influence of Kant’s philosophy, Schopenhauer’s pessimism and oriental cosmogonies, an aspect which is also admited by the writer Valeriu Anania. However, he also states that, although Eminescu did not openly claim to be a militant christian, it is known that he received a religious education from his parents as a child, that he had several monks in his family and he was very familiar with the Bible as well as old church books and manuscripts. Eminescu had a deep Christian sensibility acquired from his childhood and from all the Christian books he read and to which he will return especially in the last part of his troubled life. Valeriu Anania highlights, in Eminescu’s work, the singular condition of the genius which, gifted from above with superior qualities, carries within, analogously, a Christic destiny: to love people to the point of self-sacrifice and receive from them the frustration of love, to be ephemeral on earth and eternal in heaven. Without the intention and pretension to “Christianize” the message of the poem “Luceafărul”, Valeriu Anania reveals a source of Eminescu’s inspiration in the Christian universe. Like other great writers in the world, Eminescu found in the Christian universe a golden vein for his great poetry.

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