"Baltagul" de Mihail Sadoveanu - o alta viziune asupra lumii

Author(s): Daria Manolache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2021

L’œuvre décrit comment le roman de M. Sadoveanu traite une vision large de la vie et de la mort. Dans cette œuvre littéraire, on observe un riche substrat mythique à travers l’ermiche des mythes suivants: le myoritique, le soleil, le grand voyage et le brin d’or. L’existence des personnages est régie moins par les lois changeantes de la maîtriseque par la déesse ou la nature. L’art du prosator consiste à présenter une société de type archaïque, mais aussi une personnalité représentative du monde des montans.

"He is Mr. Naum, a distinguished poet, I am certain you have heard of him…"

Author(s): Alina Buzatu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

My present study problematizes the postural variables in the writings of Gellu Naum, in an attempt to demonstrate that all his poetic texts are based on recursive enunciation schemata, rules of coding

"Imaginarul Erotic în Romanul Românesc Postbelic" de Nina Corcinschi

Author(s): Carolina Dodu-Savca / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-2/2020

Teza de doctor habilitat "Imaginarul erotic în romanul românesc postbelic" de Nina Corcinschi.

"Malul celălalt", Antologie de poezie sârbă

Author(s): Octavia Nedelcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 4/2012

Review of: Malul celălalt, Antologie de poezie sârbă, Editura Herg Benet, Timişoara, 2012, 321 p. (Octavia Nedelcu)

"Murmur Beyond Silence" by Eugen D. Popin. Between Heart and Intellection, Past and Present

Author(s): K. V. Twain / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

In his latest poetry volume, "Murmur Beyond Silence", Eugen D. Popin offers us a mythico-religious literary journey through some of the essential spheres of life (nature, family, love), as well as poetic commentaries on Romania's communist regime and the war now being waged against the human species. The volume was published in Romanian in 2021 and in English in 2022.

"Trupy wstawać". O "Weselu" w reżyserii Jana Klaty

Author(s): Artur Duda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4-5/2017

Artykuł jest próbą analizy i interpretacji reżyserskiej koncepcji wystawienia Wesela Stanisława Wyspiańskiego w Narodowym Starym Teatrze w Krakowie. Autor ukazuje kluczowe elementy wizji Jana Klaty, poczynając od umocowania tej wizji w tekście dramatu, poprzez użycie muzyki i tekstów blackmetalowego zespołu Furia, po rozwiązania scenograficzne, kostiumowe i aktorskie, które składają się na ogólną wymowę spektaklu jako „nocy żywych trupów”. Szczególną uwagę autor poświęca postaciom dramatu jako żywym umarłym oraz kreacjom zjaw z II aktu Wesela.

(ID)ENTITATEA ȘI POLIFONIA EULUI ÎN SCRIERILE SIMONEI POPESCU

Author(s): Sorina Maria Victoria / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2022

In this paper we will explore and apply an autofictional reading grid in the works of a contemporary Romanian writer, Simona Popescu, who seems to be focussing, in all of her works, on a writing pattern that migrates around “mașscrisism”, the literary device of the “Group from Brașov”, inspired by the syntagm “as if I were writing myself”, testifying to their desire to write their “biographies in reality“. The chosen texts are based on this new way of self-expression, through an oblique autobiographical approach, which focuses on strategies of (auto)fictionalization. The author is not just mirroring her own image in the text, but she is also plunging into the fiction of the self, through various ego-positions created around it.

(Re)actualizarea simbologiei româneşti în spaţiul posttotalitar

Author(s): Mariana Anton / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2011

Our study is focused on the hermeneutic approach on the Romanian simbology within the post-totalitarian age by displaying new perspectives of re-reading the literary work.

(Re)construcţia identitară. Între memoria trecutului şi „memoria viitorului”

Author(s): Otilia Ungureanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

Starting from the idea that the history exerts a major importance over the portrayal of the human being, the present paper aims to analyse the way in which the consciousness of the individual who fights with the historical mechanism of surviving reflects in literature. The recalled history achieves different extents according to the person who relates the facts. Joining four memorial writings led us towards the assumption that a human can choose to remember the past in a resigned way or on the contrary he may project a macabre vision of the lived reality. Thereby the memory places face to face two types of consciousness, defining itself as a restoring act, a manner of the recovery of the self but also as an instrument of revenge or image of absolute despair. Verbalization stands against silence and oblivion so as to preserve the memory and implicitly the man's identity who's reconciled with himself and with his destiny or the man's identity who is caught in the trap of the past, being emptied of the hope of a bright future. Intellectual's perspective is vehemently against the dilution of the trauma through Christian filtration, accepting the burden of hate, revolt, and despair in the name of those who were victims of Communist system.

100 de ani de la naşterea profesorului Ion C. Chiţimia

Author(s): Olimpia Mitric / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2009

In this article the author evokes the personality of professor Ion C. Chiţimia as regards his personal correspondence and the important moments she met him, moments that marked her later professional activity (the specialization in Polish-Romanian) and as a museologist, specialist in old books.

130 YEARS OF POSTERITY - A HOMAGE TO EMINESCU. EMINESCU - EDUCATOR OF THE ROMANIAN PEOPLE

Author(s): Gabriela Pohoață / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Even if Eminescu was not very keen on professorship, his contribution to the field of education in general, to the education of the Romanians in particular, cannot be questioned in the least. The ideas in his theoretical work had a major impact on the Romanian culture, instruction and modern education. His vision of education, his articles on teaching and education, as well as his involvement as a school inspector show Eminescu in a different hypostasis from that of poet-philosopher. This article presents Eminescu as an educator of the Romanian nation and herein we are trying to argue, by presenting certain opinions from his journalistic work2, his notable contribution to the development and modernization of the Romanian education, many of his ideas being of topical relevance for today’s education.

2005 revisited

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Author(s): Ovio Olaru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05/2016

The text presents the evolution of t.s. khasis' poetry and its distinctive poetic voice in the picture of contemporary Romanian literature.

A Breathturn in Paul Celan’s Scholarship

Author(s): George State / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Andrei Corbea, Nu vrea/cicatrice. Studii despre Paul Celan la implinirea a 100 de ani de la nasterea poetului, Editura Polirom, 2020;

A CENTURY SINCE THE BIRTH OF FOLKLORIST AND PROSE WRITER OVIDIU BÎRLEA

Author(s): Iulia Mirela Tarko / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2017

This article is meat to mark one hundred years since the birth of one of the most complex personalities of the Apuseni and, definitely, one of the greatest folklorists who lived in the second half of the 20th century. Ovidiu Bîrlea is an outstanding figure of the Romanian culture, evenly balanced between his vocation as scientist, folklore researcher - passionate, rigorous and hardworking when dealing with folk literature - and his vocation as prose writer, with an exquisite talent for storytelling and portraying emblematic characters, depicted in charming Romanian vernacular, by means of which the author presents the communities and the landscape of the beloved Apuseni Mountains, thus managing to reach the balance and perfectly combining these qualities into an original unit. Using a famous collocation belonging to Constantin Noica, Ilie Moise calls Ovidiu Bîrlea 'the complete man of Romanian folklore studies', noting that ' the image of this eminent researcher of oral culture and thorough observer of our rural world is still made up of snippets of recollection', and his niece/granddaughter, Doina Blaga, states that 'his difficult temper kept him away from other contemporary writers but without the latter contesting the value of his work', insisting that it is our duty to acknowledge his place in the Pantheon of the Romanian culture, due to his outstanding work.

A community of spoken words: forms and practices of the conversation at Viața românească cenacle

Author(s): Maricica Munteanu / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The present article analyses the conversation of the cenacle Viața românească by exploring three directions of research. In the first place, the study concentrates on the conversation as a phenomenon of loss, focussing on the voice of the writers and oral speech as signs of extreme fragility. On the one hand, the reflection on the absence of the spoken word articulates an imaginary of evanescence that functions as a collective representation of the community. On the other hand, it reconsiders the relation between the oral and the written word by favouring the conversation against the literary work. In the second place, the article investigates the forms of the conversation specific to the cenacle as they appear in the memoirs of some members. Representing the cenacle as a democratic society where each member has equal rights, the memoirs of the cenacle depict, at the same time, some regulations that limit the speech such as the anti-rhetoric, the delicacy, and the admiration. Finally, the last issue to be approached is the content of the conversation. On the one hand, the cenacle represents itself as an elevated group that discusses the issues of literature, investing in the “profitable” conversation (Glinoer, Laisney) at the expense of the agreeable interaction. On the other hand, the cenacle values the forms of entertainment as a way of detachment from writing, the study focussing, in the last part, on the functions of laughter inside the literary community.

A Comparative Analysis of Translations of Lucian Blaga’s Poetry into English

Author(s): Alexandra Mitrea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The complexity of Lucian Blaga’s poetry is a matter of common knowledge. Part of this complexity is related to the elements of prosody that Blaga skilfully employs, to say nothing of the philosophical vein which infuses his writings, and which derives, understandably, from his philosophical work. Mention should also be made of the lyrical character of Blaga’s dramatic works, which adds significantly to the effort of translating his writings into English, or any other language for that matter. In what follows, we intend to offer a bird’s eye view of the volumes that have been translated into English and to analyse a selection of poems comparatively, in order to signal challenges and discrepancies, born in the process of transferring literary material from Romanian to English, and to point out what has been lost, and, if that be the case, what has been gained in the translation process.

A COMPLETION OF THE EXISTENTIAL FORMULA

Author(s): Ștefan Vlăduțescu / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2017

In the tableau of the current Romanian narrative, Augustin Buzura enhances within the novel of critical analysis intellectual heroes, memorably defined by means of an existential recognoscible formula. His books, that appeared 3-4 years before 1989 and every decade after this period, focus on physicians, (“The absentees” and “Vanities”) or journalists, (“The faces of silence,” “Faded roads” and “Requiem for madmen and beasts”). By his latest novel, (“An account of loneliness,” Iaşi, Polirom, 2009), the writer approaches the physician that follows after the journalist: Cassian Robert follows Matei Popa from “Requiem” (1999). At the same time, the completion of the existential formula specific to Buzura’s hero is achieved.

A DEATH-RELATED SUPERSTITION IN OVIDIU BÎRLEA'S 'DROUGHT'

Author(s): Iulia Mirela Tarko / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2017

The third short story written by folklorist and prose writer Ovidiu Bîrlea, belonging to the volume Marks on Rock. Sketches and Stories (1974) deals with a profoundly dramatic theme, arousing several existential issues. Thus, the author approaches the human condition in relation to death, a kind of death that is assumed, premeditated and accepted, even imposed by the community, yet beyond the Christian morals. This fundamental theme has two main sub-themes: one of supreme sacrifice and the other, of suicide, both having not only obvious and easily-detectable elements in common but also numerous distinctive features. Under the mark of timelessness, 'The elderly told about a terrible drought in the valley of the Abrud River' or 'The people started talking [...]', the narration is not elusive, as it is in fairy tales or legends, but it depicts a world that is alive, tightly-nit and extremely credible, due to the great number of details but mostly to the complexity of the character.

A DIARY OF WILD EAST: CODRIN-LIVIU CUŢITARU’S CREATIVE LOCALISM

Author(s): Roxana Patraș / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2015

The essay endeavors to apply Edward Said’s remarks on traveling theory by sketching a three-stage model, grounded on the evolution of critical consciousness from locality (specialization and selection of theory), to localization (loan and adaptation of theory) and creative localism (resistance to theory). Our analysis addresses Codrin-Liviu Cuţitaru’s books, from The Depersonalized History (1997) to The Present Discontinuous (2014), which contain pertinent illustrations of traveling theories, mainly localizations of Derrida’s “dissemination”, Fineman’s “historeme”, and Fukuyama’s “post-history”. Cuţitaru’s reflection on the subject’s displacement from history grows into a more nuanced vision, enhanced by a bitter awareness of literature’s role as a discipline within the changing curricula experimented by the Romanian universities after the fall of Communism. Experiencing both the locality of his own specialization (Professor of English/ American Studies), and the localization of foreign theories in a provincialized academic center (“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, established in the capital of the former Principality of Moldavia), the Romanian scholar arrives at a very original theory of creative localism. This provides the critic not only with arguments for resisting foreign theory, but also for opening himself towards the tradition of previous schools of criticism from Iaşi.

A Dystopian Universe: ˮOmul din care a fost extras rǎulˮ (ˮThe Evil-Free Manˮ) by Matei Vişniec

Author(s): Adriana Sala (Vlăduț) / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Matei Visniec`s play, Omul din care a fost extras răul (The Evil-Free Man) is a dystopia, casting the partnership between human brain and rat brain as the only possible model for an alleged progress in a society where positive thinking has taken the lead. Rats are called to ease man from the burden of having anything to do with his/her conscience. Man has given up the fight for humanity. This makes man vulnerable to a request expressed by rats to form a man-animal partnership but in which the rats must act like the inner self, like the innermost voice of the conscience. Should man accept such partnership, apart from its nauseating and anxiety-inducing effects, it would mean that man has given up any hope for mankind. Poetry could bring salvation, people need the imprecision, the lack of determination, the space for ambiguity but also for the visionarism which they find in poetical language.