Ion Creangă. Mic studiu de imagologie?
Ion Creangă. A Short Study of Imagology?

Summary/Abstract: Published 185 years after Ion Creangă’s birth, the present study analyzes one of the writer’s stories, Ivan Turbincă, constituting a plea for a non-contextualized reading of the great classic. However much he may be associated with the true spirit of the people, as Mircea Vulcănescu proposed in the 1930s (his retrograde, localist, national position still causes admiration today), Creangă is, before anything else, an artist. Even when the situations in the opera are dramatic, he builds, on well-known folklore schemes, genuine spaces of livresque emotion, located beyond any ideology and any updated reading. This is what the detailed analysis of Ivan Turbincă’s story demonstrates, which uses the tools of imagology and otherness, not to dismantle clichés and stereotypes regarding the identity of the other, but to reveal that the only thing that matters is the world that has become a text, and finally, a true show. The optimism that the work conveys, does not belong to ideology, but to the condition of art.

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