LUDIC AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE POEM UMBRA LUI ISTRATE DABIJA VOIEVOD
LUDIC AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE POEM UMBRA LUI ISTRATE DABIJA VOIEVOD

Summary/Abstract: Among the postumous, but complex texts of M. Eminescu, there is Umbra lui Istrate Dabija-voievod, in which the ludic manner and the intertextuality find an optimal combination, making this poem a postmodern one, with almost infinite possibilities of hermeneutics. The balance between the intertextual game and the ludic coherence of this unique ballad in Eminescuřs poetry is almost perfect. Beginning from serious aspects, such as the ambivalence kairos Ŕ chronos, in this text, the writer passes very easily to the relativisation of the common things, under the appearance of a mundane drunkeness, in order to have a dialogue with himself, under the double mask of the ,,minorŗ voivod Istrate Dabija. Finally, the inherent conclusion of the poet is that of the eternal art, which transcends life and death, situated beyond the two of them, impassible to both, in the (auto-)intertextual paradigma nemuritor şi rece.

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