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Litera T, pe fruntea poetului: Octavian Doclin
On the Poet’s Forehead, the Letter T: Octavian Doclin

Author(s): Valy Ceia
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: Octavian Doclin; poem; unity; sacrality; love

Summary/Abstract: By surpassing Manichaean, vindictive and triumphalist attitudes, the Doclinian creation both gives shape to and eternally longs for the harmonious unity of a world animated by the sacred. In my view there are two central ideas in Doclin’s writings: sacrality (under its various shapes: love, belief, humanism) and unity (achieved through the minimal poem, the dot, the kernel of being; it is the One to which philosophical thinking has always aspired). Based on such defining structures, the works of Octavian Doclin find within conscience a true mechanism of selfrevelation. The strength of the poet resides in surmounting – through understanding and the linguistic expression of fractures – the paradoxical, contradictory, meta/translogical dimensions of reality, sublimated in a text that is ardent due to its various examples of the world’s sacrality. In its interplay of hope and despair, certainty and uncertainty, love is relentlessly engaged in building the world’s being and securing its flight. The manifestations of love, in their multitude, are bound in an unbreakable link and together they make possible the understanding of the human being.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 50
  • Page Range: 133-139
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian