THE PAINFUL YEARNING FOR AGAPÈ IN EMINESCU AND VERONICA’S LOVE LETTERS
THE PAINFUL YEARNING FOR AGAPÈ IN EMINESCU AND VERONICA’S LOVE LETTERS

Summary/Abstract: After many other incursions, some of them pseudo-critical, insidious speculations of the biography, this work tries to sound our National Poet’s love correspondence from insight, by a literary modern perspective, that one of Eminescu and Veronica’s correspondence-novel, part of frontier literature. Thus, we reconstitute love’s philosophical message resorting to the multitude of letters which were retrieved from these two lovers, most of Eminescu’s love letters being found only in the present millennium. With this end in view, this research uses Greek philosophy about Love, namely the concepts of Eros (with the derivate Latin amor hereos) and Agapè – the same ones used in our other researches – identifying the phases of this legendary love, love’s rituals, the heroes’ type, as well as the reasons for what Eminescu and Veronica’s yearning for Agapè remains only in the stage of project, never complete fulfilment.

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