Confluencias románico-balcánicas en la literatura oral rumana
Romanic-Balkan Confluences in Romanian Oral Literature

Summary/Abstract: Within the territory delimited by the Carpathians, the Danube and the ancient Pontus Euxin, there is nowadays Romania, a country whose linguistic roots go back to vulgar Latin, although, due to its geographical and political location, they have been impregnated by Balkan influences. In this context and counting on a double cultural specificity, both of Byzantine and Roman origin, the totality of creations, fruit of the wisdom of the people, has highlighted such confluence. We start from the idea that both cultural mythology and oral literature, as a significant part of folkloric creation, have represented the characteristics that shaped the spirit of national and regional identity. In this way, Romanian oral literature, both oral and eclectic, has revealed a spirituality which generously exceeds the frontiers. Therefore, the present paper does not aim at an exhaustive analysis of the motives and themes of the Romanian culture, but, rather to approach the specific Romanian culture from the perspective of the Romanic-Balkan confluences. Among them, we will emphasize the fragile geographical location between the West and the East, the Roman and Byzantine cultural heritage and the importance of the binomial history and religion for certain forms of modern Romanian literary thought.

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