Suspine și boscoane (Sabina Paulian)
Sighs and Spells (Sabina Paulian)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the writing of early 20th century Romanian poetess Sabina Paulian, drawing the socio-cultural context of her epoch, while at the same time revealing the features of her sensibility. Gathered in two consecutive volums (published in 1929 and 1931), Sabina Paulian’s poems develop on a poetics of romance, sadness fulfillment and frustration and in the second volume the timidity is substituted by a discourse originating in popular magic, marked by incantations, gothic atmosphere and rituals, which are all translated in a symbolist poetry fascinated by numerology and euphony.

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