A.E.BACONSKY ŞI FASCINAŢIA NORDULUI
A. E. Baconsky and the Fascination of the North

Summary/Abstract: In his traveling diary entitled Remember. Fals jurnal de călătorie (“Remember. False traveling diary” Bucharest, Cartea Românească Publishing House, 1977), A.E.Baconsky registers, from the position of the cult traveler, all the spiritual, ethical and aesthetical, historical, religious or philosophical acquisitions brought about by the crossing of some European spaces which, during the communist years, were for the large mass of Romanians utopian, unattainable realms. In late August 1972, A.E. Baconsky was in Sweden; the traveler has two attitudes that mark his special status and his inclination for experimenting the Scandinavian world in an original way; the sincere, undisguised mingling between wonder and admiration: the sought solitude and, complementary, the confession tendency. Sweden, more than any other country, defined the perfectly suited geography for the baconskyan character: especially in Stockholm, Baconsky has the obvious feeling he found himself again in the middle of symbolic spaces that he perceives with all his senses. The beautiful pages consecrated for this new experience of the cult traveler when meeting the Sweden’s charm are enhanced by the thrill of being able to visit the poet Arthur Lundkvist in Solna, his home, and to meet here the poet, prose writer and essayist Lars Gyllensten.

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