Lucian Blaga e Arturo Onofri: una poesia della notte cosmica
Lucian Blaga and Arturo Onofri: a Poetry of the Cosmic Night

Summary/Abstract: Although no personal or intellectual contact between Lucian Blaga and the Italian poet Arturo Onofri is proved, they both create an ultimate poetry, which may look for the mysterydwelling in the utmost core of cosmic harmony. The present comparative essay aims to illustrate, through the tools of inquiry of archetypology, the ideal complementarity between an early poem by Blaga, Linişte (1919), and a late sonnet by Onofri, Ogni notte, nel sonno, mi riporti (1930). The first part of the essay investigates the lunar and nocturnal symbolic constellation evoked in both poems: the former reveals the eternal return, while the latter is grounded in the maternal archetype. The second part of the essay focuses on how the perpetuation of the ancestors’ melancholic song portrayed in Linişte undergoes an inversion of perspective in Ogni notte, nel sonno, mi riporti – whose main character, in the « eternal instant » of the Cosmic Night, is reborn as a child. Thus, Linişte’s central event proves to be a case of reincarnation, while in Ogni notte, nel sonno, mi riporti a renovatio occurs, resulting in an ascent to a superior level of being.

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