Victor Vlad Delamarina – contexte şi texte
Victor Vlad Delamarina – Some Contexts and Texts

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to recover one of the Romanian writers who lived in the late 19th century: Victor Vlad Delamarina, born in Banat and known as a “dialectal poet”. The first part of this study tries to rebuild the dramatic atmosphere in Banat: many of Victor Vlad’s relatives were interested in Romanians’ civil and political rights and chose to be an important part of people’s emancipation (from both cultural and political points of view). Even if Victor Vlad Delamarina died at 26, his short life reflects the way in which a complex political and cultural background could influence an individual evolution. Some biographical aspects may draw the reader’s attention: for instance, his expulsion from school because he opposed to the Hungarian politics. The political, cultural and individual reasons of this conflict and its devastating effects are investigated as well. The second part of the text focuses on Delamarina’s prose, which is almost unknown. The travelling sketches and autobiographical literature revealed their originality and characteristic features. No self illusion can be identified in his texts, when he deals with the political context of that time. After he had settled in Romania, he continued to be a defender of Romanian’s civil and political rights in Banat, but he was aware of the organic evolution in Romanian society. Living in a century dedicated to national rights, when these struggles often turned to irrational movements, Victor Vlad Delamarina was able to speak French, German, Hungarian, Italian and English. He used to draw, to read and translate from different languages into Romanian, always aware of the authentic value the European culture had. Always analitical, Victor Vlad Delamarina tirelessly tried to go beyond his limits: political limits (in his native Imperial Banat), familiar limits (illustrated in the chilly relation with his father), military limits (reflected in the illogical military commands), cultural limits (depicted in his multilingualism), spatial limits (visible in his quest for travelling by sea) and art limits (deciphered in his attraction to letters and paintings). Therefore, Victor Vlad Delamarina is an author that should be rediscovered.

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