Mihai Eminescu în căutarea „cuvântului ce exprimă adevărul”
Eminescu Looking for the “Word that Expresses the Truth”

Summary/Abstract: A researcher can write about Mihai Eminescu only when he has something really important and, especially new to say. In the Romanian literary criticism, over the 125 years since the death of Eminescu, hundreds, thousands of articles, studies and books that have examined themes, motifs of Eminescu’s poetry have appeared, they have studied the sources of inspiration, they have made classifications, in a word they “invaded” Eminescu‘s territory, seeking to know it, to master it and, especially, to explain it to others through the filter of their own sensibilities and culture. Among others, Aurelia Rusu, G. Călinescu, C. Noica, Zoe Dumitrescu Buşulenga, I. Oprea, etc. wrote about Mihai Eminescu the translator.Zoe Dumitrescu Buşulenga highlights “the poet’s pleasure to translate” and notes the effort of “assimilation and naturalization of so many difficult concepts” both from the field of the theory of dramatic creation and of the philosophy and other fields. The comments from our article dare to capture this laborious work of the translator, of the creator of literary Romanian language to find the most suitable Romanian correspondences for some German words that entered the Romanian language and thanks to the Eminescu’s interpretation from Kant, Rötscher. The fruits of Eminescu’s work as a translator are found in two directions. On the one hand, in bringing important philosophical, historical, literary and linguistic theory works in the general plan of the Romanian culture. On the other hand, in the plan of the Romanian language, M. Eminescu contributes with the translations referred to the neologization and the modernization of the literary language, its enrichment with many unexpected series of synonyms of great beauty and expressiveness.

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