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INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AESTHETIC MYTH IN THE ROMANIAN DRAMA. ADRIAN MANIU AND MARIN SORESCU

Author(s): Crenguţa Gânscă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

If Adrian Maniu isolates the moment of repeated collapsing of the walls in order to point to a conflict quite frequent in the expressionist theatre ‒ the world of mythology versus the modern world, with implacable possibility of regression to the archaic, to the origin, Marin Sorescu brings about ‒ within an expressionist vein arising from neomodernity ‒ the ironical and tragical-ironical dimension in relationship to artist's/creator's role, harder to surface in a world indifferent to spirituality and sacrifice. This is how the popular ballad, a blueprint for the esthetic myth, gets enriched with new hues giving birth to more and more refined and unexhausted actualizations of its message.

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THE BAROQUE TRANSFIGURATION OF NARCISSUS' MYTH IN RADU STANCA'S PLAY OCHIUL (THE EYE)

Author(s): Constanţa Niţă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The theatre, in relation to poetry, does not represent for Radu Stanca but a different register to convert his obsessions sublimated on the stage. Additionally, the stage answers to the ideal “visual challenge” that the baroque brought, along with its unstoppable “passion for appearances”. Within the play The Eye (a ”tragic phantasm”), Radu Stanca stages a baroque character that fascinates by his oxymoronic, ambiguous, bipolar and mystifying nature. The central symbol of the play, the eye – as a mirror of the spirit and a divine sign –ushers in the facets of specularity, the motif of the mirror, considered the very “symbol of the symbolism”. Stanca’s character becomes an anti- Narcissus through the baroque transfiguration of the well-known myth.

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HORIA LOVINESCU’S JOCUL VIEȚII ȘI AL MORȚII ÎN DEȘERTUL DE CENUȘĂ OR THE PERPETUAL DISINTEGRATION

Author(s): Alin Serafim Ștefănuț / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The present paper brings into discussion ”Jocul vieţii şi al morţii în deşertul de cenuşă” (The Game of Life and Death in the Ashen Desert), play that is a reference point in Horia Lovinescu’s drama, having many symbols, metaphors and labyrinthine characters. Having a starting point in the Biblical myth of Cain and Abel, Horia Lovinescu imagines a complex universe which, in order to survive, requires the presence of both brothers. The created universe appears more like an evil, backwards clone of the Biblical Eden. The general end and the beginning of a world. It is an uncertain situation maintained along the action of the play going even beyond it.

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CONFESIUNE ȘI ANTICONFESIUNE ÎN ROMANUL CEI DOI DIN DREPTUL ȚEBEI

Author(s): Alexandra Boldiș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2017

The novel „Cei doi din dreptul Țebei” by D. R. Popescu, published in 1973, reproduces Romeo and Juliet’s story in a Transylvanian countryside surprised by the Communist regime. Dumitru Radu Popescu, one of the most important writers of the sixties, develops his epic text based on the formula of multiple epic. The confession is a masked one, a kind of confession in absentia or an anticonfession, linked to the theme of love. Each character has the role of confessing and ambiguating the epic. Characters neither stagnate, nor evolve, nor they engage; they do not change. Psychologically, they do not transmit any morality or immorality. Speech is the one that grants them in motion the chance to narrate and reveal themselves.

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CONFESSION AND FICTION IN THE ESSAYS OF ILEANA MĂLĂNCIOIU

Author(s): Iulia Nedea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The aim of this paper is to emphasize the relevance of confession in the essays of Ileana Mălăncioiu. We have attempted to follow up in this article to what extent the confessional dimension takes a central place in Călătorie spre mine însămi (Journey towards myself). At the same time, in the following, we will analyze the style and the themes of the writer’s essays.

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VIRGIL TĂNASE: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LITERARY CREATION

Author(s): Oana Neicu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

An autobiographical and true novel, ”Leapșa pe murite” is a literary and detective story, a literary document. This book combines authenticity with literature, having its roots in the true life. The novel finds its place among autobiographical works, banking on the chronological presentation of the events and representing a retrospective story about human existence, told by a real person, emphasizing his own life and personality. Virgil Tănase is an author whose book is read for itself, not only as a document, being a testimony about courage, fear, cowardice, lies, betrayal and murder. Leapșa pe murite represents the novel of memory, confession and authenticity, delineating the protagonist′s adventurous destiny during the Communism.

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GABRIELA MELINESCU. THE IDENTITY OF A WRITER IN EXILE

Author(s): Beatrice Szilagyi (Lucaciu) / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The present work is a presentation of the condition of the artist in Exile, as well as of her/his new identities created in the adoptiv space. Melinescu’s Swedish diary, published in five volumes, is a release of her soul, a confident to whom the diarist displays her feelings. It is written in Romanian language due to her belief that only those who speak the same language can confess to each other. The biographical context highlights the issue of the artist’s identity in the adoptive country. Writing about past experiences can be a way of adaptation to the present self. The double identity of an exile occurs when she is required a certain identity, other than her own identity re-created. This is perceived as a tragedy by Gabriela Melinescu, a tragedy that can be avoided by refusing the external intrusion into shaping her own identity. The same work presents different types of identities such as: migrant identity, the artistic identity, linguistic identity, the identity of an artist who creates according to her own patterns and not to the preexisting ones in the literary world, the mother identity and last but not least, the identity of daughter. Each identity is significant because each one is a component of the puzzle that makes up an artist’s being.

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MATEI VIŞNIEC – A TIME CAROUSEL ON THE BRIDGE OF AVIGNON

Author(s): Dana Sala / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Matei Visniec’s novel Iubirile de tip pantof. Iubirile de tip umbrelă...(Shoe type Loves, Umbrella type Loves...) published in 2016 refers to two typologies of the couple. Shoe type loves are the couples that do not seem to be too in love at the beginning, but have solid relationships. Umbrella type loves have the intensity and the turmoil of a love like no other. The shoe type people have the vocation of construction, the umbrella type people have the vocation of the abyss. The moment when Visniec discovers an abandoned fountain near Bucharest (an autobiographical episode) is connected to a marathon night of story-telling in an Avignon Festival performance. Characters appear in pairs, like in a popular dance, creating a carousel. The novel is set in the ethos of theatre, of Avignon Theatre Festival, in Provence and in a circus world. Iubirile ... contains many autobiographical scenes and references to Visniec’s other novels. Kaplan, the stage director, has a committed Kafkian destiny. The stage director of Pockets Full of Bread (a play written by Visniec), an "alchemist of the spirit," he infuses the life of the novel with his transubstantiation of a complete devotion to theatre, turning himself into an artist of hunger, in Kafka’s terms (Ein Hungerkünstler). He tames subconscious fears enacted by The Animal that Perfectly Resembles Man, who holds a mirror to man’s progress. As a bridge builder and as a theatre lab mentor, Kaplan involves the readers into continuing the story even after his death. The readers may realize that the whole novel was just a journey from a dead man (Mihai) to another (Kaplan), through the ritual of the theatre.

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THE PROSE OF MATEI VIȘNIEC

Author(s): Marius Miheţ / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Matei Vișniec’s novels always orbit around nuclei that hint at the breaking of a spiritual code. From a simple travesty, to the dropped masks, to the violence of the social dialogue, to the media aggression; in general, anything that puts on disharmonic spectacles of humanity. However you slice it, his books clearly send the message of a responsible entity exasperated with the surrounding enactments of the world and, above all, with the triumph of oblivion. You can’t be the silent witness to the spiritual evaporation of the contemporary world. And, if you do get involved, then you have every shot at being marginalized. His prose puts forth dystopias, apocalypses small and big, absurdist scenarios, speculations rooted in the present, all centered around man becoming toxic to man. In other words, the diseased humanity of Vișniec passes before the reader through an always memorable spectacle.

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ʽIMAGINARY TRANSLATIONʼ AS INTERTEXTUALITY, IN TWO HYPOSTASES

Author(s): Crenguţa Gânscă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

In this article, we regard the concept of imaginary translation as being linked to intertextuality. To the extent an imaginary translation does establish programmatic intentions of communication with another text or with another literary model, it could be framed as such, it could pertain to intertextuality. One of the hypostases belogs to the writer who coined for the first time in Romanian literature the concept of imaginary translation, Vasile Voiculescu. The second hypostasis of ʽimaginary translationʼ is illustrated by another poet, Marin Sorescu, who reconsiders intertextuality. His approach to ʽimaginary translationʼ is a parodical one, as far as the form is concerned, in fact using the record of a double parody: he deconstructs not only the model of these texts, but also their ʽimaginary translationʼ.

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MYTH AND MEMORY IN PASĂREA TĂIATĂ (THE CLEFT BIRD) AND CĂTRE IERONIM (TO JEROME)

Author(s): Iulia Nedea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

It is, to a large extent, difficult to add to the interpretations of Ileana Mălăncioiu’s poetry, given that the critics have covered almost every dimension of it. However, the obsession with time in her poetry has been scantily discussed. And the poet’s entire vision stems from this theme, from the mythical time of her early autobiographies to the historical time of the tomes bearing a social component from the latter part of her creative output. In the following pages, we will trace the trajectory of this theme in „Pasărea tăiată (The Cleft Bird)” and „Către Ieronim (To Jerome)”.

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VIRGIL TĂNASE: FICTION, REALITY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Author(s): Oana Neicu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Virgil Tănase turns the real world into illusion and the reality into a created dream, using his memories and his autobiographical events. We discover a different world where the frontiers between the real facts and the unreality, between fiction and autobiography, mix and create an illusory universe. As a consequence, his works are dynamic, at all foreseeable. The reader becomes the prisoner of a series of symbols used in order to create a world of absolute lucidity, not of delirium. Real or personal history and lucid dream give birth to rational novels, based on the irrational phenomenon of the dream. The writer’s entire work seems to be a literary puzzle (Apocalipsa unui adolescent de familie, Evenția Mihăescu. Tratatul dumneaei de călătorie exotică la ceasul nunții sale dintr-un secol revolut, Au înflorit iar vișinii și merii, Balurile, Viața terifiantă și misterioasă a unui ucigaș anonim) that has an unprecedented narrative construction, a metaphorical language. All these seem to be illogical, but at the end, the novels prove to be transparent and lucid creations. Apparently without any logic, all the texts are drama-novels that mingle the social underground with the dream, the autobiography with the parallel world.

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Objectifying the Feminine

Author(s): Adina Pruteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Delia-Maria Radu’s book, Specular Women in Romanian Fiction, analyzes the role of the mirror-women in some relevant Romanian novels, providing a valuable view on their power to activate male characters’ self-analysis and to generate feelings. The book is challenging by its manner to explore the relations between the Self and the Other, between the mirror and the mirrored.

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Between Religious Faith and Romanian Literature

Author(s): Dana Sala / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Mircea Popa’s book, Regăsiri creștine (Christian Refindings) intercepts the prolongation of literature into culture, in order to seize some definitory aspects of the relationship between religious faith and Romanian literature. Mircea Popa divides his book according to these three graspable dimensions and appraisals of the contribution of faith inside the Romanian literature: 1. the relationship between a culture of facts and the lifestyle of a bona fide homo religiosus, as he existed in the European culture of the 18th century, respectively in the 19th century (that is, the first chapter of the volume of Christian Refindings); 2. the gaze of the literary critic into the perfectly crystallized universe of some of the canonical writers who created the language of religious feelings, of faith and, nonetheless, of doubt in faith; 3. author’s dialogue with other books focused on religion, on religious feelings or inspired by religion. The question of how Christian faith has shaped Romanian literature is both sensitive and sensible. The first part of the book puts together bishops belonging to Orthodox religion and to Greek Catholic religion and to Calvinism. Culture does not operate with divisions according to faith and denomination and does not operate with reductions either. The personalities in the first part are an example of creating the ethos of cultural pluralism in a book of literary criticism.

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Poetica existenţei. O perspectivă critică asupra operei Marianei Codruţ

Author(s): Graţiela Benga-Țuțuianu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 59/2021

Being one of the most significant contemporary poetesses, Mariana Codruţ creates substantial effects in the structure of compressed sentences, which have an essential role in constructing the message. The current paper aims to examine the unique features that her poetry has developed for some decades. The poetics of existence surpasses the confrontation with spatial and temporal limits, and requires a holistic way of thinking about the place of humans in the world, which goes beyond the being-action dichotomy. The paper highlights the islanding process, and (starting from Deleuze’s remarks on Robinson Crusoe) emphasizes the difference between Defoe’s character and the lyrical voice. Thus, in Mariana Codruţ’s writings, the second genesis makes existence understood as continuous poetic creation, reflecting the mental atlas that allows the Omni vision to replace the ego vision. The poetess’ creative capacity resides in the position enabled by different feelings, completed by an ethical swing. Conceived as life acts (with distillation, intentness and dissemination), the poems do not avoid the (post)violent world, the images of power, the process of hybridization, and the touch of essentiality. Beyond the varying employment of connotation, poetry is the pulse, the truth, and the ascending way of living.

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FINALITATEA SIMBOLIC-MITICĂ A CREAȚIEI DE SENS ÎN CONFIGURAREA ONTO-TEOFANIEI POETICE BLAGIENE

Author(s): Mihai-Andrei Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2021

In this paper, we seek to demonstrate how Lucian Blaga’s poetic universe is double layered, in the sense that one can distinguish between, on the one hand, a phenomenological plane, characterized by a pervasive sense of the inexorable passage of time and of human mortability and, on the other hand, a supramundane (noumenal) plane which, in a profane world, has become unattainable and therefore intensifies the individual’s sense of loneliness and estrangement from a sacred universe. We attempt to show how there two planes interfere, mainly through revelations of the divine (epiphanies). In our paper, we follow a poetic and stylistic approach, founded on Mircea Borcilă’s attempt to formulate a poetic typology aiming to highlight the intrinsec mechanisms of a poetic finality oriented towards the creation of meaning, therefore inscribing Blaga’s poetry on the coordinates of a symbolic-mythical pattern. The linguist’s theory draws on Blaga’s conception of the duality of metaphor (“plasticizantă” and “revelatorie”), the latter having a revelatory function and being subdivided by Borcilă according to a cultural finality into a “plastic” finality in creating poetic meaning, whose universe of reference will be modelled upon the phenomenological world, and a ’’revelatory” finality, whose universe of reference will be modelled upon a noumenal, transmundane world.

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BLAGA-CIORAN: INCURSIUNI ÎN MARGINEA FIINȚEI

Author(s): Mihaela-Oana Gogoșeanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2021

The following paper focuses on what lies between transcendence and reality, between self and non-self, between bounded and infinite, it focuses on that included third which contradicts Aristotelian logic and which is represented by the margin itself, by the boundary between these concepts, as it is reflected in the texts of Lucian Blaga and Emil Cioran. The role of the limit is analysed especially in those contexts in which, in addition to spatial references, the limit has a figurative meaning, that of term at the intersection of an antithetical binomial that advances the being, in Hegel’s vision, towards becoming. Consequently, the paper will refer to texts from Blaga’s poetry, where there are twenty occurrences of the word "limit" (Romanian: "margine"), six of which meet the semantic condition mentioned above, but also in Cioran’s texts that treat this matter.

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THE ETERNAL RETURN TO THE EMINESCIAN TEXT

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The books of literary criticism of Alex Ștefănescu include reading notes, comments, interpretations and analyzes. The critic uses a strategy persuading readers through a language of deliberate simplicity, with a detached writing. The critic cultivates a certain hedonism of the encounter with literature, an unrepressed lust for reading and rereading. In the case of Alex Ștefănescu, frankness, the sharpness of the statements is combined with a dose of critical impressionism, determined by the identification with the relief of the literary work.

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HOMERIC OR ABOUT THE MAGICAL POWERS OF STORYTELLING (Doina Ruști, Homeric, Polirom, 2019)

Author(s): Dumitru-Mircea Buda / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The most striking quality of Doina Ruști's writing is the imaginative verve from which the stories are created and the inexhaustible energy from which characters and narrative thread are born.

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THE MIRROR GAMES OF MEMORY

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

This article brings into the foreground the nature of Ion Vianu’s writings. The books published by Ion Vianu are to be found under the tutelary sign of the memory and under the sign of the affective reverberation whichresults from the recovery of a lived past. This past can be recovered via a sort of anamnetic fervor.

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