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Memorie generaţională în proza română din Voivodina din perioada realismului socialist

Author(s): Mirjana Ćorković / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

The aim of this paper, which analises the idea of generational memory and the idea of class in socialist reaslim Romanian literature in Vojvodina from the culturological perspective, is to understand the traces of past as well as to investigate what was expected of both writers and readers in times in which reality was perceived in the framework of socialist realism. The deconstruction of the center of the power of that time - the ideology of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, has offered a literary-anthropological analysis which shows that the expectations of the Party from the new man, new reality and the new state, can be found in two literary constructed images: on one hand, in the negative and positive auto-image of peasants and educated people, and, on the other hand, in the negative hetero-image of the capitalists. Besides this, the analysis of what was written in the researched novels gives us the idea of what was not written about - ethnic, religious, linguistic etc. Other, who was temporarily forgotten at that time.

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PUBLICISTICA DE „COLABORAŢIONIST” A LUI TUDOR ARGHEZI ŞI URMĂRILE EI

Author(s): Mirel Anghel / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

The articles published by Tudor Arghgezi in newspapers and magazines caused him the biggest problems the poet encountered in his entire life and brought him even two imprisonments, in 1919 and 1943. His articles and pamphlets always upset because the author din not take into consideration the political regime that ruled our country. He attacked his enemies without protecting anyone, irrespective of their importance. Some of the most difficult periods in the poet’s life were the imprisonments. While he was in detention Tudor Arghezi had a very difficult biographical experience but his literary creation was prolific.

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Transdisciplinaritatea spaţiului şi timpului în universul - creaţia eminesciană. Partea I

Author(s): Denisa Ardelean,Sorin Riga,Vasile Man,Dan Riga / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

Transdisciplinarity – as a way if being and Eminescian creation – is transposed into hisvisionary work through the „Eminescu universe” in the infinity of space and time. Eminescu„built” his vast culture through „the assimilation” of space and time from the humancivilization. His work explores and transcends space and time in spatial progression: microcosm→ human universe → macrocosm and in temporal evolution: past → present → future. Thesymbiosis of the past with present and future into finite-infinite space is „crafted” by Eminescuin a gem of philosophy and essence: the poem La steaua / To the Star (1886). The nuances,dimensions and antitheses in living the space-time binomial are defined, characterized andexemplified by Eminescu’s genius in the fabulous Scrisoarea III / The IIIrd Letter (1881) and thepoetic masterpiece Diana (1884). The space and time of posterity become „Eminescu’s spaceand time”, which light, impose and transcend into eternity. The wonder of his genius transcendstime through the cultural authority of Nicolae Iorga (1911), Simion Mehedinţi (1947),Constantin Noica (1978), Szász János (2000), Dorel Vişan (2014) and Dan Puric (2015).

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Ştefan Baciu, Archipelagic Poet from Romania

Author(s): Yoshiro Sakamoto / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2016

Ştefan Baciu, a Romanian exile poet born in Braşov who escaped the oppression of the communist regime after WWII in his country, vastly wandered across the oceans, travelling through many cities such as Berne, Rio de Janeiro or Seattle, and reaching the Hawaiian Sandwich Archipelago. During his odyssey, he created his own cosmological geography through the poetic fusion of his fragmental memories of places and people. It was also generated by the melancholic nostalgia caused by the loss of his “home.” This article attempts to carve out the force of Baciu’s “poetry” through the “archipelagic vision” advocated by Ryuta Imafuku. He promotes an alternative view which dissolves the modern dominant and normative world-perception into the fluid and contingent world of the ocean. Imafuku was also inspired by Baciu’s poetic life to weave this vision. Their views of the world resonate with each other across the ocean.

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‘The Reign of the Ravens’: The War Profiteer in Romanian Pamphlets (1918–1919)

Author(s): Magda Răduță / Language(s): English Issue: 30/2018

At the end of 1918, Romania exits the Great War as a victorious country, following a German occupationand double change in political alliances. The after-war years are dedicated to the national unification,political and cultural alike; there is much talk in the public agenda of starting anew and theethical dimension of this renewing process is obviously of highest priority. The present paper aimsto examine a specific element of the Romanian public agenda at the end of 1918 and beginning of1919: the press campaigns dealing with the aftermath of the occupation years, specifically the caseof war profiteers, during the first months following the war. Based on various forms of press campaignsaiming to expose the war profiteers, this article showcases the ad-hominem literary pamphlet,largely present in the Romanian press during the immediate post-war years. Seen as an intermediategenre (closely related to the press in terms of form and immediate purpose, but claiming literary statusfor its use of techniques and structures borrowed from literature), the literary pamphlet is usedin the Romanian press of ’18–’19 for its symbolical charge and as a substitute for ‘real’ social justice.

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La cultura rumana en el mundo. Ecos españoles (3)

Author(s): Ioana Alexandrescu / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2018

Peisaj după isterie (Landscape after Hysteria) gathers more than fifty journalistic articles by Mircea Cărtărescu and the letters he wrote in an epistolary exchange with Luisa Etxenique, offering an X-ray of a Romanian society exposed with its afflictions.

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THE MIRRORS OF COMMUNISM IN THE EYES OF A WOMAN

Author(s): Marius Miheţ / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

A novel perspective on communist and post - communist society is what Gabriela Adameșteanu accomplishes in her prose. Although she problematizes all of the symbolic areas present within the space of the former ”Iron Curtain ”, the Romanian writer chooses to supplement the meanings: the entirety of totalitarian and post -communist history is seen from the perspective of a female character. Through this maneuver, Gabriela Adameșteanu manages to develop the social mirrors, on one hand, and the mirrors of femininity, on the other, and, through these, the mirrors of a history that remains unclear, even beyond communism. It is likely that, if the whole history of communism in the former Communist Bloc were written in the feminine, we would be reading a totally different history, more authentic and closer to the truth.

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TEATRUL ROMÂNESC INTERBELIC ÎN OGLINDA DRAMATURGILOR SĂI

Author(s): Crenguţa Gânscă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

The paper aims to provide a mirror of the Romanian theatrical phenomenon from the interwar period, as perceived by the playwrights of the time, most of them being involved in the theater industry from different positions as well as:directors, critics or literary secretaries, or even actors. Seen from the inside, the Romanian theatrical phenomenon from the interwar period appears fascinating, very dynamic in its efforts to cope with the film competition but also to synchronize with the European trends, not only at the level of repertoire, but also in all its other components: directing, scenography, acting.

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Sburătorul after Sburătorul:

Author(s): Ligia Tudurachi / Language(s): English Issue: 38/2021

In this article we examine the careers of writers associated with the Sburătorul group (1918–1943), a literary circle formed on the basis of common tastes and aesthetic sensibilities, and present an analysis of its impact on them. A rather significant number of these writers submitted to the postwar ideology, agreeing to produce a literature that supported it. Others were imprisoned, and their work was banned. Others still were forced to end their artistic careers and accept various other literary work to earn a living (translation, children’s literature). Whether or not they made a ‘pact’ with the political regime, ultimately all were forced to sacrifice their careers. Irrespective of which line of action they took, they would never be able to capitalise on the literary preparation they had received during the interwar period as members of the Sburătorul group, nor on the writer’s life they had committed themselves to as a result of this experience. At the same time, however, the fact that Sburătorul was not simply a literary group but, thanks to its vast membership (more than 100 loyal members), a kind of micro-society allows us to make general observations about the modes in which the ‘drama’ of literature played out under totalitarianism.

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A magyar a titkok nyelve volt. Interjú Alexandru Potcoavă íróval, költővel

Author(s): Evelin Márton / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 839/2022

Interview With Writer and Poet Alexandru Potcoavă.

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Karaoke

Author(s): Adrian Bodnaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2022

A poem by Adrian Bodnaru.

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THE BROWN BEAR IN THE NOVEL OF ION D. SÎRBU: FOLK-MYTHOLOGY IN THE SATIRICAL FABLE THE DANCE OF THE BEAR

Author(s): Ionucu Pop / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The Brown Bear in the Novel of Ion D. Sîrbu: Folk-Mythology in The Satirical Fable The Dance of the Bear. Ion D. Sîrbu’s last anthumous novel, The Dance of the Bear, subtitled A Novel for Children and Grandparents, displays a highly nuanced understanding and symbolization of the animal world. This study aims to analyse the novel which, as the title suggests, abounds in animal imaginary, by focusing on its fable-like characteristics and the elements of Romanian folklore incorporated by the main prose writer of the Sibiu Literary Circle. Like most of Sîrbu’s anthumous works, The Dance of the Bear anticipates the critical and satirical attitude towards the totalitarian regime(s) that would later define the better-known posthumous books of Ion D. Sîrbu. The Aesopic dimension of the novel is facilitated by the clever instrumentation of the animal reference. One such reference is that of the Romanian mythological fauna, in the analysis of which, Mihai Coman’s Romanian Traditional Mythology proves to be revealing.

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Infuzia subtilă a Poeziei Eminesciene în Proza Hortensiei Papadat-Bengescu. Romanul Străina și Întoarcerea la Rădăcini

Author(s): Georgeta Loredana Voicilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

This paper has in its center the novel Străina, the final volume from the Hallipa saga, published by the editor Gabriela Omăt. Our research focuses on reading fragments from this book in relation to Eminescu ’s poetry, starting from the subtle allusions inserted by Hortensia Papadat- Bengescu in the text. We stress her predilection for the Romantic poet, originated in her childhood, and his role in the novelist’s creative process. After analyzing the texts, the richness of symbols and metaphors, the lyric tones of some passages, the narrowed point of view, the return of certain themes such as loneliness, alienation, ideal love, show us that the novel Străina brings about a return to the origins, to the writer ’s early writings, those so-called the subjective prose.

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TOWARDS A DECENTRALIZED LITERATURE

Author(s): Mihaela Vancea / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Towards a Decentralized Literature. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the History of Contemporary Romanian Literature by Mihai Iovănel opens new paths both in interpreting literature and towards understanding Romanian cultural identity at large. In this sense, “transnational specificity,” as Iovănel calls it, becomes a most resourceful field that allows, as Vancea shows, important insights into national and global identity in the context of significant technological developments. In the same vein, Vancea draws from Daniel David’s work on the psychology of the Romanian people to highlight new cultural aspects that could lead to changes in literature. At the same time, the paper tries to bring humanities closer to the perspectives that the Web3 phenomenon announce.

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TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LITERATURE

Author(s): Larisa Prodan / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Transnational Perspectives in The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature. Discussing literature from a global perspective requires a transnational view on the evolution and international integration of literature. Most recent World Literature studies imply such an analytic perspective when questioning the recognition of certain national literatures within the more developed ones. While using concepts such as “minor” or “major literature” or, more precisely, “central” or “peripheral literature,” attention needs to be paid, Prodan argues, when talking about the global acknowledgement of literature, especially of those literatures coming from “minor” and even isolated cultures. In The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020, Mihai Iovănel proposes a thematic rather than a historical analysis of contemporary national literature with its periodized and temporal evolutions. The author includes, especially in the last chapter of his literary history, a transnational view of contemporary Romanian literature. Therefore, the main purpose of this paper is to analyse the way Romanian writers and their literary works are perceived by the critic as having “a transnational character.” Prodan also investigates how Iovănel succeeds in renewing critical strategies in literary historiography. Thus, this contribution is mainly dedicated to the last part of Mihai Iovănel’s History, which seeks out new strategies of transnational expansion of the spectrum of national literature, as the author also analyses the possibilities of a global integration and marketing of contemporary Romanian literature.

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AMBIVALENCES OF A TOUR DE FORCE: ISTORIA LITERATURII ROMÂNE CONTEMPORANE AS CRITIQUE AND AS LITERATURE

Author(s): Alexandru Matei / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Ambivalences of a Tour de Force: Istoria Literaturii Române Contemporane as Critique and as Literature. This essay starts from hypothesizing a double dimension of Mihai Iovănel’s History: critical and literary (or, as Matei says, poetic). The idea of such an interpretation is given by Iovănel’s quoting a late text by Louis Althusser, in which the French philosopher defines the figure of an “aleatory materialist,” as opposed to a “dialectical” materialist. While critics have already discussed the critical dimension of Iovănel’s project, an aspect Matei also examines in the last part of his contribution, less has been said, he maintains, about the History as a literary project, as “writing.” Matei thus attends to the qualities and shortcomings of Iovănel’s project, which stem, he claims, from the aforementioned double dimension of the History.

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LITERARY HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE PROBLEM OF THE AUTHOR: MIHAI IOVĂNEL’S HISTORY AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AUTHORSHIP STUDIES

Author(s): Alex Ciorogar / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

Literary Historiography and the Problem of the Author: Mihai Iovănel’s History and Recent Developments in Authorship Studies. The present paper examines the dynamics between literary historiography and authorship studies and the way in which these problems related to Mihai Iovănel’s recent History. Ciorogar argues that authorship theories have always determined the workings of canonicity. Furthermore, the metamorphoses of literary histories could be viewed, he insists, as a series of conceptual revolutions. Consequently, arguments related to authorship have given rise to both new fields of research and disciplines. Finally, Ciorogar also suggests that the evolution of literary criticism and theory is more or less coeval with the history of auctorial models.

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Umbra de dincolo de zbor

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-8/2022

An essay about the poetry of Radu Cârnaci.

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Matei Călinescu: biografice. Prieteni şi apropiaţi. Eul secret îndrăgostit.

Author(s): Marian Victor Buciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-8/2022

Fragmente din eseul critic Matei Călinescu, relativistul individualist.

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Actualitatea lui Marin Preda

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-8/2022

De ce este actuală azi opera lui Marin Preda? Care sunt reperele estetice şi etice care ne permit să considerăm creaţia sa importantă, relevantă pentru istoria literaturii române, dar şi pentru timpul în care trăim?

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