„GALILEO’S DEFENSE” THROUGH THE EYES OF OCTAVIAN PALER
„GALILEO’S DEFENSE” THROUGH THE EYES OF OCTAVIAN PALER

Summary/Abstract: ,,Galileo‘s Defense” places writer Octavian Paler in the stance of moralist of his time, stance that will become iconic for his articles. This dialogue is one ―about prudence and love‖, starting from Galileo Galilei‘s well documented case. Octavian Paler resorts to this classical symbol with a view to metaphorically but obviously express his disagreement towards the political mingling in human creativity, be it scientific or artistic. In this ,,imaginary” process of defending Galilei is actually concentrated the artist‘s destiny, placed between compromise and resistance, against a totalitarian dystopia. This historical character, Galileo Galilei, is used by the author as a voice of his own consciousness, and the idea of the inquisitional terror constitutes as an echo of the restrictive and limitative times on all the levels throughout the author‘s life.

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