ION BARBU : L’ORIGINALITÉ DES VISIONS POÉTIQUES DANS LE CYCLE UVEDENRODE
ION BARBU: THE ORIGINALITY OF POETIC VISIONS IN THE UVEDENRODE CYCLE

Summary/Abstract: Ion Barbu imposed himself in Romanian literature through the originality of his lyricism, his poetic creation being thus one of hermeticism and pure poetry. Barbellian hermeticism is predominant in the Uvedenrode cycle. The transition to a new type of lyricism begins with the poem După melci whose cryptic message is that naivety can kill. The poem contains sequences in which language has an expressiveness, without precedent in our poetry, obtained through its so-called maximum contortion. The poem Oul dogmatic is appreciated by the literary critic G. Călinescu in whose vision the egg is an airtight symbol that suggests microcosmic germination, but also macrocosmic germination in equal measure. And the message of the poem Riga Crypto și lapona Enigel must be interpreted in a symbolic way, suggesting the incompatibility between beings belonging to different kingdoms. The cycle ends with the poetry Uvedenrode, a term with Germanic resonance, invented by Ion Barbu due to its euphonic qualities, in the center of which is the snail motif, symbol of the uncreated, self-sufficient being that sends, in G. Călinescu vision, to Platonic hermaphroditism.

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