Configurations poétiques de l’ennui dans l’espace culturel de la Romania
Poetic Configurations of Spleen in the Cultural Space of Romania

Summary/Abstract: Much more than a state of mind, the ennui crosses time and space, connecting individuals and cultures around an existential suffering born of the acute awareness of the "disenchantment" of the world and declined in a wide variety of nuances and forms, which find expression and fulfillment (in the sense of sublimation or conjuration) in literary and artistic works. From antiquity to modernity, of which it is the emblematic sign, this indefinable and polymorphous sentiment says the pain of living and the discomfort in civilization, the deep tear of being and its disagreement with the world. It is, paradoxically, a source of despair and a vector of lucidity and clairvoyance, of reflection and creation. Placed at the crossroads of knowledge, ennui appears as a true anthropological structure of great versatility, which allows the meeting and the confrontation of sensibilities and poetic imaginaries. The present article aims to revisit this complex theme and to reflect on the different ways in which the poets of Romania have seized it over time, trying to illuminate the affective nuances that it covers, symbolic images, recurring patterns, landscapes, scenarios, and thus identify, from these particular poetic experiences, the elements of an imaginary of the ennui.

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