Ioan Slavici şi Vasile Voiculescu: o receptare pastoral-misionară
Ioan Slavici and Vasile Voiculescu: a pastoral missionary reception

Summary/Abstract: The present paper forwards the interpretation from a pastoral missionary perspective of two writings in the Romanian literature, PopaTanda by Ioan Slavici and Ciorbă de bolovan by Vasile Voiculescu. Thetwo authors are rooted in Christian morality; moreover, by means of thetwo writings, each author manages to reach the profound reality of a community which can lose and regain this quality, of the communion which loses its Christological centre, but is able to rediscover it. In theend, both writings suggest that man cannot lose the seed of charisma which restores his side of being in communion, therefore able to rise again. Slavici, a classical author of the Romanian literature, builds hisnovella in a realistic key, using humour, while Voiculescu writes a story-parable;Voiculescu’s story was written in his last stage of creation,the last ten years before the arrest which was shortly followed by hisdeath. The present paper comprises a pastoral-missionary approach of characters, places, and especially events. Moreover, the interpretation relates to the needs of contemporary man, as well as to the problems that a shepherd of souls may encounter in a community.

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