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MASTER MANOLE-VALERIU ANANIA, RELIGION AND ANTHROPOLOGY
MASTER MANOLE-VALERIU ANANIA, RELIGION AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Author(s): Alina Luciana Oltean
Subject(s): Anthropology, Romanian Literature, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Pastoral Theology
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: dramatic; death; mysterious; pastoral; theater;

Summary/Abstract: Valeriu Anania dramaturgy gets his merits in 1982 by Writers Union Award for Playwriting volume Hard of the earth. The two dramatic poems and lyrics Mioriţa and Master Manole had a change in the late 60s to be staged by Marietta Sadova, herself being a character in the history of Romanian theater. The action is set in a legendary space but undetermined eternal "sometime long ago, somewhere in the Carpathians". Follows the storyline of infidelity studied religious ballad. Mioritic is striking: a philosophy of merging with inorganic, jubilation "Dacian" in the face of death, humor of the confrontation with death, the cult of love, moral revulsion against ugly. It's a filtered Mioritic a romantic culture and civilization. It is a mysterious sensual atmosphere in the first part of the poem, as Sburătorul of Helia I. Radulescu, sensuality increases to violent in the final ritual murder.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 560-568
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian