ANTON PANN BY LUCIAN BLAGA. POVESTEA VORBEI VS. CÂNTUL MUT
ANTON PANN BY LUCIAN BLAGA. POVESTEA VORBEI VS. CÂNTUL MUT

Summary/Abstract: “Anton Pann” (1945), Lucian Blaga’s last drama is highly autobiographical. When writing about the popular poet, musicologist and composer Anton Pann, about his love for life and his sacrifice for his literary work, Lucian Blaga is writing, more than ever, about himself. “The Story of the Word” is to be made up out of the people’s proverbial sayings brought together by Anton Pann. The book becomes an artistic expression of the Romanian apriorism, of the ethnical genius in a balance realm. This is possible for the autochthonous “mioritic” space has preserved its connections to the magic even in the modern prosaism. The contacts with the age of the superstition, of the myth are not lost forever. The poet finds himself in a tragic state, caught between vow and denial. Just like Manole the Master Mason, he has both the awareness he is predestinated for the daimonic mission to create and the intuition he cannot dissociate the act of creation from the most specific feeling of human life, which is to be sacrificed, the love. On the night he creates “The Silent Song” the poet gives away everything for his work. The poet is anchored both in the near horizon and “beyond”, bearing both the human bit and the daimonic predestination in his genius nature, leaving from history and making a halt, eternally, into the story.

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