ESTETICA URÂTULUI ÎN PROZA REGINEI MARIA A ROMÂNIEI. FUNCȚII, FORME, MESAJ
THE AESTHETICS OF THE UGLINESS IN THE PROSE OF QUEEN MARIA OF ROMANIA. FUNCTIONS, FORMS, MESSAGE

Summary/Abstract: The artistic concept of the aesthetics of the ugliness was first introduced into the European literature by the French writer Charles Baudelaire, through the book Les fleurs du mal, and was then developed by the German philosopher and writer Karl Rosenkrantz through the volume Ästhetik des hässlichen. In Romanian literature, this concept was introduced through the contribution of the poet Tudor Arghezi. He published the volume of poems Flori de mucigai in 1931, a representative volume for this aesthetic perspective. In Romanian literary history, royal literature also remains a landmark moment, not only because of its exponents, but also because of its form and content. Royal literature represents a literary product that benefited from prior maturation: the historical context, the cultural influences that came into contact with the writers of the Royal House, the personal experiences of the authors who, as we know, were deeply connected with the realities and ideals of the Romanian society and, last but not least, the set of tools that the authors benefited from in their artistic process, acquired either through the education they received or during their lifetime.All these are elements that strongly manifested their influence in the work of Queen Mary of Romania. For her, writing is not just an artistic phenomenon, like painting or drawing. Her writing is strongly anchored in meaning. Every literary work has a precise message, a well-defined purpose. Her style is as fine and delicate as it is studied and meticulous. The characters and events are not left to chance, they are the very product of intentionality, as are the literary techniques and registers she uses. The aesthetics of the ugliness is a concept she adopts and uses recurrently in her work.Our research, however, aims to highlight the diversity of forms and functions that this concept can take. Also, although Queen Mary wrote literature especially for children, using the literary species of the story and the fairy tale, the aesthetics of the ugliness are not used on a standardized level, as we might expect. In her work, the ugliness transforms into a wide palette of variations, serving the third basic element of Queen Mary's writings: the message.Our research will be based on the analysis of some support-texts belonging to Queen Mary of Romania in relation to the concepts of aesthetics, aesthetics of the ugliness, imaginary and its representation in the social context.

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