THE POETIC UNIVERSE OF ALEXANDRU VONA
THE POETIC UNIVERSE OF ALEXANDRU VONA
Author(s): Roxana Elena DoncuSubject(s): Literary Texts, Poetry, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: inter-war literature; Jewish literature; poetry; modernism;
Summary/Abstract: In Romanian literature, Alexandru Vona is a singular writer both on account of his peculiar style, and also as the author of a single novel, The Walled-in Windows, written in 1947 and published almost half a century later, in 1993, and of a volume of poetry, for which he received the award of the Revista Fundațiilor Regale in 1947, shortly before he left Romania. As Cioran characterized him, a visionary of the “silent depths”, Vona is a poet of the silence and the waters: for him, the primary world of the waters represents the opposite of the city; through its silent and mysterious resilience it mocks the festive, colourful world of the urban pseudo-events. The human and the natural are seen as essentially identical hypostases of a primary, fluid reality, towards which only silence, a magic path to mysterious springs, opens like a gate.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 378-381
- Page Count: 4
- Language: Romanian