„The bidding prayer”, by Marin Sorescu – a free-thinker almost religious Cover Image

„Paracliserul”, de Marin Sorescu – un liber-cugetător aproape religios
„The bidding prayer”, by Marin Sorescu – a free-thinker almost religious

Author(s): Elena Luminiţa Crihană
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: The Sexton; Sorescu’s theatre; energetic personalism; spiritual evolution; “towered drama”; gnosticism; ontophany; eleutherology; absolute freedom

Summary/Abstract: The energetic personalism is a philosophical and theological theory based on the idea that the “human being (person)” is the final form of updating the (divine) energy in its accomplished act, the human conscience perceiving the structural identity of the personality ( in the middle of which the ego starts in its multiple aspects ) with the universe. Built on the neo-platonic descent of persona, it has developed within the space of modernism as a philosophy of subjectivity in relation to the transcendent otherness and of self conscience employed in the existential adventure, with the purpose of self-salvation and of saving the lineage through creation. The personalism is an ecletic phenomenon recording different contributions in the field of philosophy, theology, anthropology, aesthetic, economic – Emannuel Mounier, Jacques Maritain, Denis de Rougemont, Alexandre Marc, Nikolai Berdiaev, Romano Guardini, Constantin Rădulescu-Motru, Luigi Pareyson etc. An analytical theatre “towered drama” in which the fall into self corresponds to the apotheosis as introspection, the Sexton play, by Marin Sorescu is a part of the “trilogy of the lyric ego” the “trilogy of queries”, in which “the absolute is being searched by oneself” by solitary characters, on a triple paradigm that reveals the Man in his fundamental dimensions –homo cogitans, homo religiosus and homo aestheticus, in search of the solution of coming out from the absurd and the soteriological way. The idea of saving the soul by deification of the human spirit and by creation supposes knowledge, faith, creation, sacrifice -major thematic coordinates in a neo-modernist dramatic structure in which three different patterns conciliate: philosophy, religion and art. In its deep structure, the play combines gnosticism, Hegelian philosophy, Plato`s philosophy , personalism

  • Issue Year: 13/2012
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 53-70
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian