IS THERE A TIME OF HAPPINESS IN EMINESCU’S THINKING?
IS THERE A TIME OF HAPPINESS IN EMINESCU’S THINKING?

Summary/Abstract: Despite the unjust persistence of a pessimistic interpretation of Eminescu’s outlook on human existence which is limited in time, the interrogation underlying our study is justified because Eminescu understands the true meaning of time, confronting what is with what was. In Eminescu’s work , the memory calls and requires the return to the place of the happy moment, a return that can always be resumed, the memory signifying a kind of ”Heaven” man cannot be banished from. Therefore, we intend to analyze those texts of his work highlighting the relationship between time and happiness, an approach that will facilitate the answer to the problem of our article. There is a time of happiness in the Eminescian destiny that is closely linked to the lived moment, whether relating to childhood, nature or love. The time of happiness is, in fact, reducible to the happy moment. Somehow, we could emphasize that, for Eminescu, the happy moment is equivalent to the feeling of cross-temporality.

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