IN BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY: MIHAI EMINESCU AND NOVALIS
IN BETWEEN DREAM AND REALITY: MIHAI EMINESCU AND NOVALIS

Summary/Abstract: The study Between dream and reality: Mihai Eminescu and Novalis is an application of literature field, comparative literature in particular. Thesis in the direction which it argues: Both Eminescu and Novalis, in prose belive that the world is a dream trough which the dream becomes the world. In our opinion, the motif of the blue flower, the preference for nocturnal and dreamlike spaces, are the axes that create the connection between the Romanian and German poets. The probing of the real depths and the principle of the continuous present are also visible in the short story Poor Dionis by Mihai Eminescu, as well as in Disciples from Sais. Henrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis. In conclusion, the life transcribed, in a poetic act, the nocturnal space that favors dreaming and the descent into the essential depth are specific to the thinking of both poets-prose writes. Similarly, the desire to access a higher knowledge, to the Absolute, is the key element can be identified from both Eminescu᾽s and Novalis᾽s thinking. All these ideas converge in European romanticism.

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