SENTIMENTUL DISTANŢEI: FACHIRI ŞI FARAONI
A Feeling of Distance: Fakirs and Pharaons

Summary/Abstract: Wars cannot be counted by the so-called key words in the poetry of Petru Cârdu (1952), they are more like magical, apocalyptic witnesses of time and of a century which still lasts and which Miloš Crnjanski, being a Banatian himself, considered to be a century of wars. This tangle of impressions, this fright before the silence of the dungeon, this cry to the deaf witness, surely defined the lyric expression as it was accurately observed many years later. In the time of general insecurity when, according to the works of our surrealists, three fourths of reality had already vanished, Petru Cârdu continued with his poetic élan, innocent like a unique soliloquy which is beyond hope, in the windy Pannonian nights, driven by spasmodic thirst for indefinite knowledge. Petru Cârdu is a sophisticated poet who often innocently plays with his verses, language and sentences he cares so much for. Alienation, as philosophical nothingness of the past century, is nothing more than a support for a new aspiration, a delicate flicker of a virile gesture, a pattern of anxiety which does not follow any rules.

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