De dincolo de ape. Pagini de jurnal şi alte texte
From Beyond Waters. Pages of a Diary and Other Texts

Summary/Abstract: The author himself has not planned his activity as a publicist to fit into a unitary volume, as it is mainly a late gathering of earlier works. These objective circumstances determine the characteristic expository feature of our approach, as we have tried mainly to summarize the contents of the abovementioned works and to illustrate the characteristics of the intellectual and aesthetic profile of the author. Additionally, we assume the commentary and interpretation of the author`s discourse, especially when his opinions prove a unity of vision with the literary works. Often, the notes in these secondary works offer new information regarding the alchemy and genesis of his literary work, with reference to biographical experiences regrettably interrupted. Without wishing to impose an exclusivist opinion, we believe that the main value, sometimes impossible to tell, of these volumes is that of documents, and, thus, this essay can be seen as complementarities of the biographical portrait of the author. Between the lines written for more than sixty years, we can figure out the cultural portrait of a personality who cultivated his firm, constant beliefs stoically and with dignity. Paradoxically, it is here that we see a complete Valeriu Anania, perhaps more than anywhere else. In the volume De dincolo de ape. Pagini de jurnal şi alte texte (From Beyond Waters. Pages of a Diary and Other Texts), we remark the option the articles offer to reconfigure the complex personality of the author, to reconstruct the psychological and intellectual profile of the writer in a previously little known stage of his life. Eventually, we face an instrument useful for the depiction of a most likely authentic bio-bibliographical portrait of the writer. For Valeriu Anania, who, at the time he wrote this diary, had just got out of prison after six years of detention and was situated at a huge distance from his native land he loved so passionately, yearning was no longer a mere abstraction. The thought appears in a super-dimensional shape of what is fundamentally and innerly Romanian, not with regard to meaning, but to expression.

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