Pietà de Valeriu Anania, în Lecturi Paralele
Pietà by Valeriu Anania, Simultaneous Reading

Summary/Abstract: This essay is an interpretation in the manner of theological aesthetics of the poem Pietŕ by ValeriuAnania (the last in the cycle Orele mamei—The Hours of the Mother). The core of this poem consistsin offering the life and the destiny of the beloved mother to a trans-mundane family authority:“L_sa_i-m_ s’o iau în bra_e,/ s’o strâng la piept/ _i a_a/ ca pe o juc_rie cereasc_/ s_ i-o duc tat_luimeu”—[Let me hold her in my arms,/ close to my heart,/ and so,/ as if she were a divine toy,/ letme take her to my father]. The fact that Orele mamei was _ rst published in the volume Anamnezeis meaningful. We think about Plato’s theory of anamnesis as remembrance of the thing once seenby our spirit. An important moment of the Liturgy is called anamnesis or the prayer of remembranceand consists in recalling the path of our Lord Jesus Christ, from the Embodiment to the LastSupper, the Passions, the death, and the Resurrection. The inner process of re-cognition throughremembrance and experience through the spirit during the rite of anamnesis must have had a profoundeffect on the views and practice of a poet who was also a priest. This transforming perceptionas part of his spiritual experience probably needs to be supported by theory; we have tried to offer atheoretical dimension to the interpretation by performing a simultaneous reading of the poetic imageand the hermeneutic image. The text on the theology of the icons in Cerurile Oltului by ValeriuAnania offers a complex answer to this issue. The poem illustrates the Orthodox belief regarding theAssumption of the Mother of God by her Son Jesus Christ. The author also initializes a comparativereading of the literary text and a plastic reference: the well-known painting by El Greco, The Burialof the Count of Orgaz (church Santo Tomč, Toledo)

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