Recitind basmele copilăriei – „Tinereţe fără bătrâneţe şi viaţă fără de moarte”
Reviewing the Fairy-tales of the Childhood - Tinereţe fără bătrâneţe şi viaţă fără de moarte

Summary/Abstract: The void symbolizes the descent into the pre-ontological world, into the stage of the pre-being, where the Cosmos could take any form. The world of the boundary is deconstructed, empty, awaiting to be structured. The void comprises two essential symbolical senses: the un-distinction of the pre-ontological and the superficial surface, under which the reality has to be discovered (Chevalier). Tinereţe fără bătrâneţe şi viaţă fără de moarte (Eternal youth and life without death), from Petre Ispirescu collection, is one of the most famous fairy-tale from the Romanian literature because of the unusual ending, which is not a happy one. If it would have been different, it would have been the only fairy-tale without a round construction, in which the hero would not complete his initiation. The fairy-tale was included by Lazar Şăineanu in the Oath Circle, The Promise Fairy Type and it tells about the story of a child, a price, who refuses to come into this world unless the emperor, his father, promises him the eternal youth and life without death. His delivered into this world is due to the intervention of a wizard. One tries to demonstrate, by reviewing the fairy-tale in adulthood, that the hero is a wizard with extraordinary powers, a solomonar able to perform jumps between the two worlds of divinity and humans. The voyage of the hero begins in the pre-ontological void; it continues through the fields and the forest of the evil Gheonoaie and Scorpie- who are embodiments of malefic women cursed by their parents and therefore damned. The journey ends in the dual world of eternal youth. The price becomes unhappy after reaching his goal - he now exists in a world of eternal stagnation. To overcome this, and re-earn the right to die, he had to reach the singularity, the point from which everything emerges. The life of the hero is an anticipation of his death. The life is just a circular voyage that ends in the same point it begins. The beginning lies in the center of the world, in the imperial palace, the zero point that allows the access to the after world.

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