Ştefan Augustin Doinaş - Between Faith and Reason or outline for a Poiesis of the Psalms
Ştefan Augustin Doinaş - Between Faith and Reason or outline for a Poiesis of the Psalms

Summary/Abstract: Whenever it comes to a great author, a curiosity aiming beyond the text itself ariseswithin the reader, pertaining to what it was called the poiesis of the work. Unlike thepoetics, dealing with the text already conceived, the poiesis concentrates on the message production process. Therefore, a new relation rises between literature and saying about literature, between the religious poetry and the thought of it – ante factum,in the volume Past Present , and post factum , in the volume Returning Home. Wemay claim that the author’s confessions and thoughts, within the above stipulatedworks, operates as a placing into abyss (“mise en abyme”) for Doinaş’s Psalms (likea poiesis). The motivation behind the writing of Psalms is triple: the religious feeling, the detention, the emulation spirit (the overcoming of the biblical pattern andthe one provided by other psalms authors). Trying to reach the meaning of the world,through poetry and refl ection on poetry, through Psalms, which not by accident,represents his last poems work, Doinaş eventually discovers that the meaning of theworld fails to be revealed within the man, but outside, within God.

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