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Anticlericalismul apocrifei lui Ion Budai-Deleanu
The Anticlericalism of Ion Budai-Deleanu’s Apocrypha

Author(s): Adrian Mureşan
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: Ţiganiada, Ion Budai Deleanu, anticlericalism, fanatic spirit, superstition, masterpiece, apocrypha

Summary/Abstract: Ţiganiada, Ion Budai-Deleanu’s masterpiece, stands out from the illuminist literary fi eld by its merciless irony, the artist’s freedom of thought, and anticlericalism. By confuting the fanatic spirit and superstition and borrowing spectacular eschatological images from the apocryphal gospels, the poem fi nely refl ects the illuminist cultural offensive in the Romanian space

  • Issue Year: VII/2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 74-76
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian