DIE RUMÄNISCHE SEELE. GEDANKEN ZU LUCIAN BLAGAS „SPAŢIUL MIORITIC“
The Romanian Soul. Reflections on Lucian Blaga’s “Spaţiul mioritic”

Summary/Abstract: “Spaţiul mioritic” is one of the most popular works written by Lucian Blaga. It describes the stylistic connection between soul and spatiality in Romanian culture. Due to Blaga’s philosophy this connection is unconscious and forms the basis of every cultural creation. Concerning Romania, the cultural style is formed spatially, like waves. This aspect is based on the characteristic archetype of Romanian folk culture. One has to imagine the typical Romanian shepherd who is wandering over mountains and valleys with his sheep. This imagination deeply influences Romanian poetry, music as well as cultural products of everyday life, like the design of clothes or the rural architecture of farm houses. It should also be noted that Blaga’s popular work was translated into German by Rainer Schubert, the former Austrian cultural attaché in Bucharest. The translation was published by LIT Verlag, Vienna, in the year 2022. The book has already been translated into German by Julius Draser and has been published in the year 1982 by the publishing house Minerva in Bucharest.

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