PAGINI DESPRE RELIGIE ŞI CULTURĂ.VALERIU ANANIA, DIN SPUMELE MĂRII (1995)
SEVERAL PAGES ABOUT RELIGION AND CULTURE. VALERIU ANANIA, DIN SPUMELE MĂRII (1995)

Summary/Abstract: Valeriu Anania is right when hesitating to definitely classify the texts from the volume Din spumele mării. Pagini despre religie şi cultură (Out of the Foams of the Sea. Pages on Religion and Culture) (1941-1994; 1995) as they neither are polemical journalism proper, editorials, documentaries, nor are they methodically integrated in his literary work. Eventually, they are an expression of the writer’s effort to communicate with occasional reader in a concise formula, while he reveals to him certain aspects considered to be of perennial not circumstantial importance. This is why the journalistic style is combined with the essayistic one, out of the pages of the volume shapes an extremely interesting biography, which bears the touch specific for all his writings. Out of the Foams of the Sea, a late and unintended compilation of the writer, which renders a prolix, repetitive, redundant, heteroclite and heterogeneous character, remains however a document of real interest. Sandu Frunză sees the value of the volume in the unitary confession of the performance of a “restoring hermeneutics”, thus reuniting the theological dogma and the mythical considerations with the aim of a constant attempt of restoring interpretation of the exhaustive significations of culture seen as a carrier and expression of the sacred. Obviously influenced by Mircea Eliade’s approach, Valeriu Anania shows an effort “… to find significations and symbols full of the archetypal essence capable to render the ritual dimension of man’s passage through he world.

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