N. D. COCEA: ”VINUL DE VIAŢĂ LUNGĂ”OR THE LONGEVITY OF AMBIGUITY Cover Image

N. D. COCEA: ”VINUL DE VIAŢĂ LUNGĂ”OR THE LONGEVITY OF AMBIGUITY
N. D. COCEA: ”VINUL DE VIAŢĂ LUNGĂ”OR THE LONGEVITY OF AMBIGUITY

Author(s): Lionel D. Roşca
Subject(s): Romanian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: fantastic; realism; symbolism; mythopoesis; sociological perspective;

Summary/Abstract: Traditionally seen by the Romanian literary criticism as a journalist and a talented pamphleteer, but only as a minor writer, N. D. Cocea endures in Romanian literature first of all because of “Vinul de viaţă lungă”, a work with an uncertain narrative status (tale / short story / novel). In the course of time, the exegesis approached this literary work from various hermeneutical perspectives, of which the most productive is probably the symbolic approach, which re-assigns the text to the fantastic genre, therefore reporting it (critically) to this genre’s conventions.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 267-274
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian