Analfabetismul înseamnă atentat la adevăr
Illiteracy as an Attack on Truth

Summary/Abstract: The author suggests a reconsideration of the relation between reader and écriture, in the framework of the current crisis manifested in the field of reading texts edited and published in books. The work of Romanian medieval chronicle writers is being rediscovered, and its document value emphasized, encouraging citizens to rediscover it, in a call to a better knowledge of their own history. The main emphasis lies thereafter on the study called Problema cititului. Contribuții la estetica fenomenului literar [The Issue of Reading. Contributions to the Esthetics of the Literary Phenomenon], written in 1943 by poet, playwright and essayst Radu Stanca, former manager of the Theatre from Sibiu. Stanca's analysis rests upon certain themes such as ”Origins and nature of reading”, ”Types of reading”, ”Types of esthetically adequate reading” and ”Issues of literary education”. To Radu Stanca, the major problem seemed to be an insufficient literary education. As he put it, in the same way people need to learn how to sing, they also need to learn how to read esthetically. An unfortunate lack of literary education, similar to the one denounced by Stanca in 1943, is noticed by M. Posada in our contemporary times of the 21-st century. Even more, iliteracy can also be understood as an attack against the Truth of the Christian Word, of which an illiterate person is banned from reading and coming to know.

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