LUCIAN BLAGA ȘI HORIA LOVINESCU: JERTFĂ ȘI SACRALIZARE PRIN ARTĂ
LUCIAN BLAGA AND HORIA LOVINESCU: SACRIFICE AND SACRALIZATION THROUGH ART

Summary/Abstract: In every moment of creativity, humans rise to a higher level of consciousness and start their connections with the divine power. Similarities and differences can be established between Manole and Manole Crudu, the main characters of the two dramatic works belonging to the writers Lucian Blaga and Horia Lovinescu, "Master Manole" and "Death of an artist" determined by the aesthetic conception and way of expressing, starting from the theme of the sacrifice necessary to achieve a remarkable creative work. Lucian Blaga and Horia Lovinescu interpret this theme according to their own vision of the creator's condition. Neither Blaga nor Lovinescu creates a simple adaptation of the well-known folk legend. Closer to the legend is the philosopher poet, who offers the reader a "Romanian myth," in the spirit of folkloric tradition, in the sense that he accredited to tradition, as a stylistic matrix. Horia Lovinescu aimed to achieve something else: the drama of the artist who finds himself in a situation of life-limit, with echoes from the existentialist conception, referring to the tragic or absurd conception of man.

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