POEZIA LUI VASILE VOICULESCU SAU DESPRE „MÂNTUIREA PRIN FRUMUSEȚE”
VASILE VOICULESCU'S POEM OR ABOUT „MÂNTUIREA PRIN FRUMUSEȚE” ("SALVATION THROUGH BEAUTY)

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the premise that, both through the existential path and through the opera Vasile Voiculescu is a singular writer in the literature of the Romanian, my approach first identifies three source-characteristics for his singularity. Metaphorically, they can be called as follows: the sign of Ianus, the scale of James and the soul-flesh. The first of them highlights the two "ages" of the literary work, induced in critics by the harmful destiny of the author. It is about the literary work published until 1944 (seven volumes of poetry) and the literary work that appeared only posthumously (after 1963), the writer being a victim of the communist regime and prisons (Jilava and Aiud, 1958-1962). The second characteristic is argued by a hermeneutical overflight that highlights the anagogic path of the work, including from an axiological angle, and the last one, the soul-flesh, reveals itself as its thematic core, double valued by the poet: as a searing sensual passion and as a spiritual-cognitive transcendence. Considered global, this study crystallizes a panoramic image of Vasile Voiculescu's poetry – a creation of rare consistency and onto-cognitive tension – whose purpose is none other than the purpose of the great poem always: "salvation through beauty".

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