Persistenţa flăcărilor
The Persistence of the Flames

Summary/Abstract: Gellu Naum is a most provocative poet, as he seems to escape any convention and any attempt at classification. Having been the last of the Surrealist poets, he has his own way of being a surrealist. He has repeatedly stated that poetry / Surrealism is not a literary concept, but a way of life, which moves the process of reading out of the realm of art into the realm of reality, reading becomes an investigation into the poet’s intimacy, a journey in time. There are few clues that light the ways on this journey – dream, love, liberty, poetry and miracle. Gellu Naum also said that the poet’s role is to show the world what love is and so he does. The paper aims to explore the hidden meanings of Gellu Naum’s poetry related to the alchemy of love. Gellu Naum’s poetry is a magic language which speaks to the being inside man, recuperating its originary centrality and making possible the absolute contact, the absolute knowledge of the world, of the other and of the self, surpassing the differences. Poetry, this miraculous language, transgreses the social and cultural delimitations rendering man its purity. Poetic language places beings face to face in their wholeness, retrieving their unity, without losing their individuality.

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