OCTAVIAN PALER – UNDE THE SIGN OF THE REVOKED VOW
OCTAVIAN PALER – UNDE THE SIGN OF THE REVOKED VOW

Summary/Abstract: This essay aims to concentrate a walk through the lyrical universe created by Octavian Paler in his first writing, named The Shadow of Words. This collection of poetry, published in 1970, is a rescission of the asseveration he made to himself: not to write anymore, after he loses his first manuscripts. He will cancel this vow after two decades passed from this first writing trial. The author published this poetry collection when he was 44 years old as an image of ,,hasteŗ, as the he confessed. These lyrics are similar to the aphorisms because they are created as wise judgements related to different concepts that authorřs life was connected with, one way or another. One of them became the theme of his writing universe. The most important seemed to be loneliness. These poems were created as definitions, for concepts like: loneliness, melancholy, sadness, absence, silence, uncertainty, late regret, nostalgia, joy (white smile), humility, homesickness, anxiety, insomnia, abandonment, fear or love. On the other hand, to infinite feelings of the emotional sphere, are attached ,,the definitions" of some abstract concepts designed to shed light on the possibility of a wise transcending according to the creative spirit of these verses: hypothesis, mystery, introspection, lack of unity of opposites, alter-ego, etc. All these concepts, regardless of the field they belong to, are exposed as tangential lines related summaries of creative self. Each term is thought, in relation to appearance, strictly according to the author. The approach is, every time, with direct relation to the being, focusing on the positive or negative impact which they have on the self.

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