Gheorghe Grigurcu. Locuirea în chip po(i)etic
Gheorghe Grigurcu. The Po(i)etic Habitation

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims not only to introduce in a synthetic manner Gheorghe Grigurcu’s poetry, but also to problematise the relationship between poetry and the author’s critical attitude. After his debut, in 1968, Grigurcu published several tens of volumes of poetry, criticism and literary history, to all these directions of his creative spirit adding in the last years the preoccupation for aphorism. A moralist, one that distinguished himself after 1989 through his outstanding involvement, in the first line of the attitude directed towards revisioning literary hierarchies, Grigurcu only apparently writes notation poetry, mainly visual and metaphorical, refined and manneristic. What I wish to demonstrate in this study is that the two hypostases – the inclement critic and the refined poet – do not reveal a rupture, but a complementarity, based on an ethical outlook on writing. Writing as biography (considering that Grigurcu doesn’t seem to have another life except for his ideas) and as ethics (the experience of wiriting becomes his only existence), this is the message implicitly conveyed through Gheorghe Grigurcu’s work.

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