The Playful Reverie
The Playful Reverie

Summary/Abstract: Poet Vintilă Ivănceanu cultivates an artificial, powerful typf of Onirism which is at the same time charming; he bears the inheritance of the Surrealism, but marked by the reverie of the gothic. His main quality is that of resuscitating a modern Middle Age, a place where the grotesque and the monstruous are diaphanous, as they do not exist in their pure state. Like Leonid Dimov and Emil Brumaru, Vintilă Ivănceanu loves to play and does it in a crazy and fantesist way. There is sensuality and also a mystical attempt which haunts his poems and the demythologization they are subjected to is an angelical one, since the tonality is carnal, the religious element is subdued to a pagan ritual of tempting the senses, in a playful manner.

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