Redefinirea sentimentului identitar prin ritualul agrar (nuvela Claca de Ion Agârbiceanu)
Redefining Identity Feeling through the Agrarian Ritual (The novella„ Claca (The Corvee) by Ion Agârbiceanu

Summary/Abstract: Any nation that builds and further develops needs several benchmarks. According to the constructivist theory of a nation (Ernest Renan, Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Anthony D. Smith, etc.), there are some basic elements related to “identity checklist” : identifying ancestors, language, folklore and not the least, literature. The point of this analysis stems from our fascination for Transylvanian prose, meticulously built on facts of popular culture. The subject proposed is a philological one, shaded by anthropological and cultural perspective. We propose to analyze how a literary work emphasizes folk elements with national and local features. Ion Agârbiceanu is the chosen writer. The preference for this writer is part of an approach trying to restore the profile of the Transylvanian scholar through folklore. The author Ion Agârbiceanu was interested in making a survey of a psychological reality and not in the mechanical recording of external events, be they even traditional. Regarding the analysis of the text – the short story Claca – we will try to capture the basic principle according to which Ion Agârbiceanu selects and processes folk material. Therefore, we propose a new reading grid of Agârbiceanu’s text that focuses on the description of harvest habits, Claca, i.e. redefining the identity by recalling agrarian ritual.

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