UN FRAGMENT BIBLIOFIL: [O MIE ȘI UNA DE NOPȚI], [VOL. VI], [BRAȘOV], [1836] DE LA VALEA DOSULUI (JUDEȚUL ALBA). RESTITUIRI ISTORICO-LITERARE
A Bibliophilistic Fragment: [O mie și una de nopți (One Thousand and One Nights)], [vol. VI], [Brașov], [1836] from Valea Dosului (Alba County). Historical-Literary Retrieval

Summary/Abstract: This paper puts forward a fragment of Romanian printing with Cyrillic letters from the VIth volume of the translation made by Ioan Barac, O mie și una de nopți. Istorii arabicești sau Halima (A Thousand and One Nights. Arabian stories or Halima), translation did after a German edition and printed in 8 volumes, in Brașov, between 1836 and 1848. In 1915, the mentioned fragment of printing was in Valea Dosului (nowadays Izvoru Ampoiului), Alba county. Translation of Ioan Barac represented a renewal as regards the Romanian cultural projection, an attempt to channel the preferences for the Romanian audience to universal literary values, the way they were known in the European central-western cultural environments. We tackled the presence of this modern typographical modern fragment, in the mentioned village, in 1915, as pretext to set up some aspects of local history, not mentioned by anyone before, revealing, rather indirectly than directly, the opening of this mining environment, preoccupied with exploitation and processing of gold and mercury, towards laicity and its wish for innovating literary products. Interest for such a modern reading maintained quite alive, at least in Valea Dosului, until the beginning of the First World War, despite using Cyrillic letters in writing the text.

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