BETWEEN METAPHOR AND CONCEPT
BETWEEN METAPHOR AND CONCEPT

Summary/Abstract: In spite of a common belief still present in literary criticism, Lucian Blaga’s poetry is not an alternative space of manifestation for the central concept from his philosophical work, the mystery, but a contiguous cosmos in expansion. In the poetic realm, the concept becomes diaphanous: it turns into metaphor founding possible worlds. Starting from a series of poems which crystalize three essential symbolical thresholds/ levels for the trans-vision of their creator-chroma, the myth of Eurydice and the nonworld, the present text focuses on the poetical side of the concept, i.e. the transgression-inclusion between the metaphorical and the conceptual. If The world is infinitely mutilated story, as Blaga writes at the end of The Divine Differentials (Diferențialele divine), the ontological force of the metaphorical language compensates the losses: the possible worlds become the glimpsed ineffable.

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