GURA SATULUI REVIEW - ROMANIAN LANGUAGE LITERARY PLATFORM IN ARAD
GURA SATULUI REVIEW - ROMANIAN LANGUAGE LITERARY PLATFORM IN ARAD

Summary/Abstract: The Gura Satului review, the first satire and humor publication issued in Arad in March 1871 after moving it’s headquarters from Pesta, came to the fore at the turn of the XXth century, as a publishing national and local landmark. The magazine does more than making fun, by holding on to thorough principles accomplished by its copy editors and contributors despite numerous drawbacks such as the censorship imposed by the foreign rulers or financial worries. For 17 years (1871-1879; 1881; January 1890; 1901-1903; 1912-1914; 1934) the magazine was for the people in Arad, a catalyst of Romanian intellectual creativity by publishing both written literature and folklore, promoting young writers and cultural soirees, and a means for reflecting those times’ reality tackled in satire and humor, in a period in which the Transylvanian history suffered numerous social and political convulsions. Last but not least, Gura Satului played an important role not only in entertainment by publishing humor literature, anecdotes, jokes but it also played a moralizing role by condemning social flaws with the aid of satire and pamphlet. But, above all, Gura Satului was a literary platform that stimulated creativity and the inclination towards literature, the reception and dissemination of the written text in Romanian language, the approach to different literary species.

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