Appartenir à la nuit. Strigoii d’Eminescu et Only Lovers Left Alive de Jim Jarmusch
Belonging to the Night. Strigoii by Eminescu and Only Lovers Left Alive by Jim Jarmusch

Summary/Abstract: The essay aims to take into account the poem Strigoii by Eminescu and to study, for the first time, its similarities with a contemporary work, the film Only lovers left alive by Jim Jarmusch, in order to shed light on little-explored aspects of the Eminescu’s major work. In the first part, “Under the Sign of Deathly White and Scarlet Fire”, we concentrate on the similarities of the protagonists (Maria and Eva) whose portraits are constructed on the “coincidentia oppositorum” of White and Blood. In the second section, “The Lord of the Night”, we concentrate our attention on the portraits of Arald and Adam in order to shed light on masculine romantic beauty, fatal and dark. In the third part, “The Fantastic Ride”, we demonstrate the existence of the mythic substrate of the two works, while in the fourth part, “Lunar Magic”, we analyze the cyclical temporality of the eternal return associated with vampirism and its relation to music, of particular import in the film by Jarmusch.

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