MARIANA MARIN AND MATEI VIȘNIEC. CONFIGURATIONS OF REALITY
MARIANA MARIN AND MATEI VIȘNIEC. CONFIGURATIONS OF REALITY

Summary/Abstract: The idea of linking Matei Visniec's poetry to that of Mariana Marin was triggered by the statements that Mircea Cartăsescu makes in The Romanian Postmodernism. He attempts to make an organization of the eighty poetry according to several defining criteria. Thus, the nucleus of the eighty poetry will be given by the poets of Bucharest Literary Circle who write a prose, biographic poem, which is recording the real photo, while at the opposite pole are the poets who report themselves in a parabolic way to reality. Here, Mircea Cartărescu includes Matei Visniec and, surprisingly, Mariana Marin. I have thus considered it a challenge to mirror the two poetic paradigms, that of Matei Visniec and Mariana Marin, in order to see how close they are to each other and how different they are. It is true that Matei Visniec offers a highly-chosen elected poetry, based on obvious symbolic elements – the dog, the horses, the ship, the park, the city, the king/Emperor, the poet/philosopher/wise – and which, joined together, make up a coherent story with an obvious subversive film. Mariana Marinʼs poetry is also trying a parabolic report to reality, but the symbols that are used, although some of them are also found in Matei Vișniecʼs poetry, no longer have the same force to make up a story, so create more fragmentary images, but with an immediate impact on readerʼs conscience. Like Matei Vișniecʼs poem, Mariana Marinʼs poem, too, though much more incisive and aggressive, develops an ethical side, showing the frond character of her book. Therefore, the trait that brings the two writers undoubtedly closer together is the ethical attitude in front of the reality, the social and political context of the moment, but also the consciousness that the poet must sometimes assume a social role that goes beyond the esthetic sphere.

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