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Words Without Horizon

Author(s): Mihaela Bal
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: spirituality; imaginary; philosophy; culture; word

Summary/Abstract: Our essay tries to answer a question about the importance of being or not being a writer in fashion. For instance, I thought to emphasize the work of a contemporary writer, who has the intention to remain a classic among the postmodernist writers. The work of Dumitru Velea is a valuable one and it has three parts: poetry,essay, theatre.To this, it is fitting to add Dumitru Velea’s activity as a reviewer for many national profile publications. He has also been included in many anthologies edited on themes. It is difficult, if not impossible to find a synthetic formula to define the specific of each literary genre approached by Dumitru Velea. However, there is a common philosophical line present in each one of these three categories. I intend to make some approaches between the Velea’s work and the works of his contemporaries and to demonstrate there is a chance to be a writer out of fashion. His work is a provocation against the wave of postmodernism and o hope for a new formula in literature, based on philosophy. I entitled the essay Words without Horizon, because this is the title of his last volume of poems translated into English by Mariana Zavati Gardner but I hope my words have a very strong horizon.

  • Issue Year: 10/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 45-55
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian
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