“The War Generation”. Two Lyrical Approaches: Geo Dumitrescu and Ion Caraion
“The War Generation”. Two Lyrical Approaches: Geo Dumitrescu and Ion Caraion

Summary/Abstract: Geo Dumitrescu's poetic approach has its starting point in an attitude of revolt, of inadhesion to a counterfeit, unnatural reality; poet with an undeniable "penchant" for the real, Geo Dumitrescu assumes the prerogatives of sarcasm and irony out of an acute sense of inadequacy of literary expression to the data of the concrete. Acutely feeling the poetic word as an alienated and alienating way of communicating, improper to an authentic aesthetic dialogue, the author uses a "democratization" of poetic language, restricting the scale of consecrated vocables and relativizing the amplitude of themes with a consolidated, but otherwise constraining prestige. Poet belonging to the so-called "war generation" Ion Caraion established himself primarily through the originality of his lyrical universe, through his striking imaginary horizon transcribed in unconcessive, steep verse, of a negativist force rarely seen in our poetry. The insurgent spirit, the rebellious attitude are prevalent in Caraion’s poems, a poet for whom denial is a form of resonance with his aesthetic and ethical choices.

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