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The thought of a thought
The thought of a thought

Author(s): Remus Bejan
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Ion Barbu; Henri Bergson; cosmology; (creative) emotion; duration; genius; knowledge; Poe; (poetic) creation; poetry; pure poetry; science; vital impulse

Summary/Abstract: The Vigil of Roderick Usher is one of Ion Barbu’s most emblematic and hermetic texts. However, its cryptic language contains a deeper truth that illuminates the Romanian author’s relation with Edgar Poe’s poetics and cosmology. It is his manner of paying homage to the American writer, in whom he sees a precursor of modern pure poetry, that kind of poetry which dreams of “travelling through the universe,” only to end up asking, like Novalis, “is not the universe in us?”

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 162-198
  • Page Count: 37
  • Language: English