THE POETIC UNIVERSE OF ALEXANDRU VONA
THE POETIC UNIVERSE OF ALEXANDRU VONA

Summary/Abstract: In Romanian literature, Alexandru Vona is a singular writer both on account of his peculiar style, and also as the author of a single novel, The Walled-in Windows, written in 1947 and published almost half a century later, in 1993, and of a volume of poetry, for which he received the award of the Revista Fundațiilor Regale in 1947, shortly before he left Romania. As Cioran characterized him, a visionary of the “silent depths”, Vona is a poet of the silence and the waters: for him, the primary world of the waters represents the opposite of the city; through its silent and mysterious resilience it mocks the festive, colourful world of the urban pseudo-events. The human and the natural are seen as essentially identical hypostases of a primary, fluid reality, towards which only silence, a magic path to mysterious springs, opens like a gate.

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