Le starets Bogumil dans Manole, Maître Bâtisseur Meşterul Manole, 1927) de Lucian Blaga
Starets Bogumil in Manole the Craftsman (Meşterul Manole, 1927), by Lucian Blaga

Summary/Abstract: Manole the Craftsman, a drama by Lucian Blaga, created in 1927, takes up the legend of master Manole, the supposed architect of the Monastery Church of Argeş in Romania. The fable is tragic. Manole would not have built the church until the day he decided to wallow his own wife alive. A character, alien to this tradition, that of the “starets Bogumil”, also appears in the work. It also changes the meaning. This name of “Bogumil” is also synonymous with "heretic" in the Orthodox world. It is a very sulphurous religious figure that arises as well. How is it built? What can be deduced from the paradoxical presence of this ecclesiastic, of this strange spiritual master and of this very sulphurous being?

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