Arheologia antropologică a Meşterului Manole şi reflectarea acestui mit în dramaturgia românească
The Anthropological Archeology of Meșterul Manole and the Reflection of this Myth in the Romanian Dramaturgy

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian modern drama was marked (till1965, n. b.) by two plays: „The Manole Handicraftsman”(1927) by writer and philosopher Lucian Blaga and „TheDeath of an Artist” (1964) by Horia Lovinescu. The firstwas an expressionist illustration of the idea that patternsof the Modern Age are coming from the Indo-Europeancomplex primitivism; the second was a metaphoricalanswer to Socialist Realism, supporting the idea thatbehind an artistic act lays a mythological and idealisticmentality. Our study investigates the Balkanic roots andvariants of The Manole Handicraftsman Myth and theirevolution according to the views of Mircea Eliade. Thenext step will make subtle connections between the mythheritage that survived in the regional popular balladsand the modern drama. Even if the study does not directlylink the mythological and the modern mentalities, we try to demonstrate that a connection over ages is activated when the nowadays artists create by regaining the lost paradise of unity between the essence and the form.

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