PLOTINIAN SYMBOLIC ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE’S LAST FANCIED SONNETS IN V. VOICULESCU’S IMAGINARY TRANSLATION
PLOTINIAN SYMBOLIC ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE’S LAST FANCIED SONNETS IN V. VOICULESCU’S IMAGINARY TRANSLATION

Summary/Abstract: Shakespeare's imagined last sonnets in imaginary translation concentrates in an almost hermetic micro-universe all the concentric energies found throughout the volume, configuring the cosmos of love and reflecting the diffuse religiosity of most Voiculescu’s stanzas. The book is, in a larger context, a polyphonic retort to the divine Brit, an antiphonal response to William Shakespeare, a good-quality pastiche of the Shakespearean sonnets. Beyond the inherent epigonism, it also signifies a singular artistic experience in the European litterature, through the maximum ideational cisellation through the formal optimization of the verses. We can notice, above all, the infusion of the verses with Neoplatonic symbolic elements, found in Plotinus' Enneades, and the originality of the Voiculesian volume consists in the fact that death itself is conceived as a mistress, up to the point of liberation from the contingent, life being, paradoxically, a simple vehicle of transcendence to the world beyond, in which a new kalokagathos containing the necessary good, beauty and truth, becomes the supreme motto.

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