THE ATEMPORAL CHARACTER OF EMINESCU'S JOURNALISTIC CREATION
THE ATEMPORAL CHARACTER OF EMINESCU'S JOURNALISTIC CREATION

Summary/Abstract: When contemporary society does not represent you, you try to look in the past for the golden age of your nation's conscience. It is a state of mind that some of us are living at the moment, when, revolted by what is happening around us, we invoke Vlad the Impaler, as did Mihai Eminescu about a century ago. Probably the socio-political reality at that time was not much different from today's, although, looking back, the 19th century is the century of the great transformations which opened the way for modern Romania. Mihai Eminescu was born in a revolutionary period, the Union of the Principalities took place when he was 9, and when the Romanians fought for independence, he was in Bucharest as editor of the Timpul newspaper. However, he probably felt the same bitter taste of converting these achievements into a tool designed to serve the personal interests of a false elite under the guise of national interest. Indifference, ignorance, corruption, greed, lack of solidarity and collective consciousness, lassitude have been and have remained the flaws of Romanian society, and we wonder in which age and under which influence we got them. Reading today what Eminescu wrote in his articles in the past, we have the impression that time has stopped and that, despite so many historic events we have left behind, nothing has changed. We find it surprising that Mihai Eminescu always remains contemporary, not only by his poetry, but also by his journalistic articles.

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