Valeriu Anania, the Writer
Valeriu Anania, the Writer

Summary/Abstract: The chapter dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of Valeriu Anania’s prose approaches distinctly the two volumes signed by the author, challenging a hermeneutical interpretation which uses the instruments of contemporary exegesis but maintaining a fundamental relation to the fundamental Christian text or with theology as a whole, in relation to which the writer constructs elaborated and erudite allegories. Finally yet importantly, we suggest the reading of the two volumes as an artistic dimension of certain autobiographical elements in a subtle parable of the writer’s own destiny. The chapter dedicated to the analysis of Valeriu Anania’s dramaturgy resorts to, as much as possible, the sometimes critical evaluation of the bibliographical sources which the author can be related or related to. Here we have the most documented and structured section of our study, fully motivated by the fact that the writer Valeriu Anania was first acknowledged as playwright, and his plays relies on the artistic valuation of some essential myths of our national culture. Each of the five plays is analysed separately. The conclusion wants to depict the categories of mythical thinking in “the pentalogy of the Romanian myth”. Valeriu Anania’s literary work, laborious and constantly elaborated for half a century, proves to be only a preamble of the masterpiece, the translation of the Bible, a definite accomplishment of his cultural destiny. The work on the artistic word finds its peak in the supreme effort to depict the authentic expression which word gives to the Logos, through this the author tasting the divine spirit ontologically. The self-expression of the author through the artistic word is elevated and metamorphosed in God’s expression, through the holy word, and thus achieving an inner self-elevation.

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