STRANGE COUPLES IN ILEANA MALANCIOIU’ POETRY
STRANGE COUPLES IN ILEANA MALANCIOIU’ POETRY

Summary/Abstract: The lyrical space of Ileana Malancioiu is populated by strange couples. The poetess is strongly attracted either by the dragon from the Romanian fairy tailes and the deterioreted scheleton of a Roman emperor or by the bearřs therapeutical step which brings to the women the ilusion of erotic fullfilment. Her passion for fairy talesř negative characters, for phantoms or ghosts, and also her desire of strong feelings causing fright, have created an original poetry. In these peculiar poems, Ieronim, the sweetheart with an uncertain status, is the reference„characterŗof a unique „ love novelŗ in our literature.

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