Abstract The book explores the complex relationships between the emperors of Rome (from Augustus to Hadrian) and some of the most significant writers of the era (Virgil, Horace, Propertiu, Ovid, ...Seneca, Lucan, Petronius, Pliny the Elder, Martial, Juvenal, Tacit, Pliny the Younger). In an effort to reconstruct vestiges of an inevitably fragmented past, the author cuts data, details, literary forms and ideas through which she outlines the force of writing and the weaknesses of writers, much too close to decision-making centers, authoritarian principles and capricious principles of Rome.
Abstract Ana Blandiana’s prose books have, right from the title, echoes, hints or suggestions of the fantastic. The epic is under the aegis of the oneiric imaginary, the atmosphere has a visionary ...tinge, the projections into the fabulous favouring immersions into the past through which the boundaries between the real and the fantastic prove to be fluctuating, evanescent and deceptive. The fantastic is not the fruit of the accumulation of events, scenes or details, it comes from the treatment of the setting, from the narration of a story that has the gift of blatantly contradicting the reader’s habits.
Abstract In his book entitled Avatarurile lui Orfeu (Orpheus’s Avatars), Dumitru Chioaru presents the two hypostases of the Orphism, the orphic and anti or post(orphic). Beginning his line of ...argument from the myth of Orpheus and crystallising his critical options with a hermeneutic perspective on the problem in question, Dumitru Chioaru manages to achieve a larger picture of the lyricism related to the orphic myth, by analysing the poetic works of thirty poets. The Orphism’s hypostases are depicted by means of two exegetic methods, both used in an irreproachable manner (mythological criticism and hermeneutics). Dumitru Chioaru’s endeavour in the history of the universal lyricism and in everything which lyricism represents, in its multiple hypostases, proves the presence of a fine hermeneutist, attentive to everything which the paradigm of Orphism implies, a paradigm he manages to define by capturing it in some ample sentences, both clarifying and expressive.
Abstract Nicolae Breban’s work is characterized, as expression and narrative diction, by spontaneity and naturalness, even if, deep down, one suspects the articulations of a program that values a set ...of essential readings from which Dostoevsky, Nietzsche or Thomas Mann are not missing. The architecture of the work is underpinned by a tension of opposites from which its individuality is born; it is a tension between the vitality of energetic, dominating writing and the lucidity, pessimistic or sceptical, of the perception of the world. Seductive, problematic, polemical, Nicolae Breban’s books reveal the qualities the prose writer has always possessed: lucidity, the fascination of storytelling, obsession with the past, the ideal and anarchy, as well as a rhetoric of the perennial truth of being fixed in the suggestive drawing of the epic.
Abstract This present article aims to explore the thematic grounds in Adrian Dinu Rachieru’s book. He examines authors and books, managing to achieve a critic within the proximity of the social ...dimension and, implicitly, in the context’s proximity. Through his work, Adrian Dinu Rachieru manages to configure an ample perspective on the contemporary Romanian literature, the critic being individualised through a well-defined documentation, an exceptional capacity of using the bibliographic resources, but also through an amazing dexterity in dealing with certain literary concepts. By means of his book, the author brings to the reader’s attention five types of cannon, which he defines and illustrates by analysing a series of representative writers. The critic’s books are also distinguished through the sociological and historical optics of the problems he highlights.
Nicolae Breban's work is characterized, as expression and narrative diction, by spontaneity and naturalness, even if, deep down, one suspects the articulations of a program that values a set of ...essential readings from which Dostoevsky, Nietzsche or Thomas Mann are not missing. The architecture of the work is underpinned by a tension of opposites from which its individuality is born; it is a tension between the vitality of energetic, dominating writing and the lucidity, pessimistic or sceptical, of the perception of the world. Seductive, problematic, polemical, Nicolae Breban's books reveal the qualities the prose writer has always possessed: lucidity, the fascination of storytelling, obsession with the past, the ideal and anarchy, as well as a rhetoric of the perennial truth of being fixed in the suggestive drawing of the epic.
Abstract The Book Letters from Exile. Unpublished correspondence is the proof of a long friendship, the letters gathered here revealing scenes, portraits and events that reconfigure the biographies ...of the two exiled Romanian intellectuals, Matei Călinescu and Ion Vianu. The affective imprint, the vague colour of nostalgic emotion compresses the impediments of spatial distance, the long friendship between the two being the result of reuniting several circumstances, affinities, closeness, because a friendship is strengthened, as we know, by analogies and empathy, tolerance, patience and sincerity, but also from the valences of the modelling and recovering confession. A theme that appears with a significant frequency is the theme of exile, of the rupture of identity, with old and new existential meanings, with difficulties, illusions and disappointments. A recurring topos is that of travel, as many epistolary notations summarize projects of meetings, reunions, trips, planned in detail, trips in real geography and trips on the map of a postmodern imaginary, bearing the imprint of intercultural dialogue, ideas, references bibliographies, reading sheets, possible conferences and other opportunities for intellectual debates that, for us today, do not mean so much anymore.
Abstract In Andreea Răsuceanu’s novels, the narrative is characterized by the ability to evoke the past, by presenting scenes, objects, events from which reconfigurations of the imaginary occur, by ...sensations and perceptions that express the retrieval of past time, through sensations brought back to the present, in a realistic-magical atmosphere. Under these conditions, the novels impose themselves through balance and substance in the dynamic and ambivalent relations between the characters, absences, revolts and deceptions in the disturbing context of the traumas of communism, captured in an intense and dense drawing.
THE PAST AS SEDUCTION AND CHALLENGE Boldea, Iulian
Acta Marisiensis. Seria Philologia (Online),
2021, Letnik:
3, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
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In Andreea Răsuceanu's novels, the narrative is characterized by the ability to evoke the past, by presenting scenes, objects, events from which reconfigurations of the imaginary occur, by sensations ...and perceptions that express the retrieval of past time, through sensations brought back to the present, in a realistic-magical atmosphere. Under these conditions, the novels impose themselves through balance and substance in the dynamic and ambivalent relations between the characters, absences, revolts and deceptions in the disturbing context of the traumas of communism, captured in an intense and dense drawing.
Abstract Ion Pop’s most recent book, Cărţi la alegere with its subtitle Poeţi şi poezie (Tracus Arte Publishing, 2020) represents more than the title makes is believe, more than what the poet himself ...says. The book brings together the literary reviews published by Ion Pop in different cultural magazines between 2000 and 2019, exposing before the readers a series of “fragmented readings” dependant to a great extent on the editorial context of these years. The critic, an “active spectator” of the Romanian literary scene, admits his inappetence for the often confusing image of the backstage, of biased manoeuvres, movements and image strategies, preferring, as he writes in the Foreword, to be left “alone with the texts and texts alone”. On the other hand, one cannot ignore the ambition of his thesis, as Ion Pop confesses his “secret impulse of fitting a mosaic piece of these types of glosses in a more comprehensive assembly”, capable of highlighting the “figure in the carpet” “calling to unity the capillaries of the entire organism”.
