Existenţa şi sublimarea ei în lirica lui Ioan Flora
Authentic State and Factual State in Ioan Flora's Lyrical Poetry

Summary/Abstract: Lyrical poetry of the well-known poet from Vojvodina primarily expresses the infinity of the world and the universality of existence as a processuality which enables a link between diverse temporal and semantic perspectives. Ioan Flora was a close friend and collaborator of Nikita Stanescu, Srba Ignjatović, Adam Puslojić, with whom he wrote and translated literary works of the Romanian authors into the Serbian language, as well as the works of the Serbian authors into the Romanian language. One should specially underline their mutual translation of the entire poetic opus of Vasko Popa under the titles: Ne sećam se dobro, dobri moj prijatelju (I Do Not Remember Well, My Good Friend) (1983) and Voda za piće (Water for Drinking) (1986). A contemporary poet does not consider himself a demiurg, a prophet nor a tribune of the established characteristic hypostasis of the creators of worlds, mythological or imaginary universums (Orpheus, Homer, Dante, Byron, Eminescu). The poet has neither tasks nor purposefulness. However, precisely in the poet's competence there lies the imperative of his own anxieties, searches, melancholy, sorrow, indignation, rebelliuosness, obligations to interpret and decypher the world and nature in different infinite hypostases in order to conclude resolutely and suggest finally that the world and the entire existence are not interpretable, but only simple verbal chimeras or mental paradigms in the general materiality which is so present and alive. A contemporary poet writes about the powerlessness of writing as a demiurg act, about materiality of the world and about acute, buring materiality of his own imagination, about the dreadful struggle with the WORD. In that sense, the notion of metapoetry is so frequent in contemporary literary understanding which is as much justified as fundamental. Thus one is led to mystery, unbreakably linked to the idea of art and to the work of art. Mystery or just an aura of the mystery of reality, the mystery of the very state of writing, the mystery of word reflected in the very fact that it exists.

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