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About love, murder and emeralds. Ioan petru culianu's ”seriously” game with fiction

Author(s): Ciprian Iulian Toroczkai / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 34/2015

This study looks into how Ioan Petru Culianu illustrated some of his ideas, as a historian of religions and as a philosopher of culture, in one of his literary works, The Emeralds Game. This novel is more than mere detective fiction, it is also a magic and esoteric novel, and to understand it we need to refer to magic, astrologic or geomantic practices. This means the considerations the author expressed in his other essential scientific works are “logically” extended, continued in this literary writing. The contemporaneity of the work is suggested by the significant fictional world it proposes, a world where the political blends with the religious, where reality blends with the psychological, science with adventure; all these aspects bring this novel to the same level with other similar novels, like Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose or Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.

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An Intercultural Dialogue in the Age of Romanticism

Author(s): Dana Sala / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Cepraga`s book on the experiments of Italianism within the Romanian literature of the 19th century is a thorough and useful study on a niche research, with a subtle alternation of perspectives and a consistent documentation. Written in Italian, Cepraga`s study also picks up the forgotten gems of the 19th century Romanian language. The creation of the Romantic poetical language is retrieved through a complex fusion of methods imported from stylistics, music, history of language, poetics and linguistics, combined with cultural studies

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Anekdoták az átmenetről

Author(s): Annamária Codau / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 02/2017

Dan Lungu: Tyúkok a mennyben

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ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN MIHAIL SADOVEANU’S THE HATCHET

Author(s): ELENA Fuiorea / Language(s): English / Issue: 7/2014

The paper aims at stylistically comparing a selected excerpt of a Romanian contemporary novel, The Hatchet, with its English translation, laying stress on the lexical and grammatical levels. The study also includes an analysis of the Romanian text at the symbolic level. In the first part of the paper, Choice and Motivation, we will try to explain some of our translation choices and describe patterns of stylistic change which occurs during translation, laying emphasis on such elements as: parts of speech, sentence structure, descriptive patterns, constructions used for stylistic purposes, rhythm, insistent repetitions, the stylistic significances of several definite articles, as well as the use of unliterary forms of verbs and nouns, specific to the vernacular language. The second part of the study, Visual and Auditory Elements, focuses, at the symbolic level, on both the visual and auditory elements within the text. It deals first with the visual elements, at the lexical and stylistic levels, with a special emphasis on the auditory elements, analyzed at the lexical, phonetical and syntactical levels.

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ASSUMING THE DESTINY OR THE TRAGIC IN HISTORY IN PETRU RARES OR LOCȚIITORUL BY HORIA LOVINESCU

Author(s): Alin Stefanu? / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

The play Petru Rareș or Locțiitorul enriches the historical drama that approaches the voivode myth, Horia Lovinescu offering a personal reinterpretation of it. The voivode is seen, first of all, as a human having both qualities and inner struggles. The humanity is significantly outlined in the play, the ruler being conscious that the History has to be fulfilled no matter the individual struggle. Petru Rareș has the awareness that he is only a “sitter” for Ștefan cel Mare, or even more for Aurochs’ from Moldova’s coat of arms. The voivode symbolizes the self alienation and the belated self finding. The life he lives proves him that the destiny is an implacable force and the individual cannot avoid it. The main character’s deep humanity, the mingle between sacred and profane and his opening towards Europe transform him in a memorable hero of the Romanian historical drama.

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Az érettségi tétel: Caragiale

Author(s): Andor Horváth / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2013

Magától értetõdõ dolog, hogy Caragiale érettségi tétel az ország iskoláiban. Róla való töprengésem e rövid elõadás* kapcsán azzal kezdõdött, hogyan fogalmaznék meg egy rá vonatkozó érettségi tételt. Az ötletet az adta, hogy egy alkalommal éppen a halhatatlan pedagógus, Mariu Chicoº Rostogan történeténél ütöttem fel a kezem ügyében lévõ Caragiale-kötetet, s folytattam az érettségirõl szólókkal. Caragiale, mondhatni, vizsgáztatta korát és kortársait, ennélfogva magától adódik a kérdés: hogyan vizsgázik belõle az utókor? Ami mindjárt két dolgot jelent: hogyan látja magát mûvei tükrében, és milyen mondanivalója van az általa teremtett szereplõkrõl, helyzetekrõl, egész írói világáról?

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Coordonate ştiinţifice în studiile de stilistică eminesciană. D. Caracostea

Author(s): Sorina Sorescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2015

Praised for his attempts of alignment to the Western epistemological horizon, (“the first Romanian structuralist”, according to some of the post-war editors), D. Caracostea had brilliant followers. The Eminescu exegesis school in Cluj was established starting from his ideas. He was also highly contested. This article aims at emphasizing the scientific coordinates of his 1938 study Arta cuvântului la Eminescu (Eminescu’s Artistic Use of Language), by identifying its contested elements (flawed wording, transcendental vision, nationalism), as well as those that are valid (an attempt to go beyond deviance stylistics, multiple levels of stylistic analysis, comments on image morphology).

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COPILĂRIA, ÎN LITERATURA ROMÂNĂ DIN VOIVODINA

Author(s): Brândusa Juica / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 3/2016

Romanian literature for children and youth written in Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, is an integral part of literature created in the region after the Second World War. Until 1970, no original work for children had been published, all the achievements of this kind could only be found in the magazines “Bucuria pionierilor”(Vršac, 1946), which in 1956 became “Bucuria copiilor”. Books for children and about children that enter into specific relationships with the art, games, illustrations, culture and the traditions of the Romanians living in the region produce a full image of a valuable chapter of our literature, contributing to the completion of the self-image of the Romanian minority. This paper reveals the specificities of Mihai Condali’s poetry, one of the writers who immersed himself in the world of childhood.

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Critic`s Encounters with Poetry

Author(s): Marius Mihet / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Mircea A. Diaconu writes in his book about the most important Romanian poets in contemporary literature. Many of them are at the peak of their writing, so the volume catches this dynamism of styles and ages that keep changing. Diaconu is convinced that critics do have a real power, that of making the readers share a fundamental nostalgia. His book helps the reader to distinguish the best voices of contemporary poetry.

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Dimension pratique de la traduction des culturèmes. Domaine Franco-Roumain

Author(s): Carmen Munteanu / Language(s): French / Issue: 6/2014

This scientific paper focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of the translation of culturemes. Our interest in this field is generated by those cultural references that appear in literary texts and by the difficulty in finding them an appropriate equivalent in the target language. The objective of the study is to define the concept, to identify and to analyze the cultural expressions of the source language that can be transposed into the target language. We focus on one element, the cultureme. The theoretical part of the study is based on the theory of translation, the theory of translating cultural references and the definition of the concept of the cultureme, while the practical part provides us with the analysis of some examples from Romanian literary texts. We have chosen examples from the novel Moromeții by Marin Preda. We analyze also the translation strategies used by the translator Maria Ivanescu. We agree that the translation of culturemes from the source language into the target language is a difficult process caused by the nature of these cultural expressions. Therefore, the role of the translation process is to harmonize the socio-cultural contexts of the two languages that interact.

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Dimensions and Metamorphoses of Intimacy

Author(s): Dana Sala / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Regăsirea intimităţii- Corpul în proza românească interbelică şi postdecembristă (The Findings of Intimacy. The Body in Romanian Interwar and Post-1989 Prose) by Simona Sora argues the changes that occurred in the perception of the body by opposing the paradigms of modernity at its highest peak versus postmodernity in Romanian literature. Simona Sora is a critic who knows how to render a particular flexibility to all the difficult concepts she operates with. Her writing never loses its edge and its inquietude. Abstractions are tamed through coinages of new words and concepts that give a thrill of surprise to long demonstrations.

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Domnitori români în toponimia actuală din Oltenia şi Muntenia

Author(s): Iustina Burci / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1-2/2015

The “image” of contemporary toponymy is the outcome of a complex evolution, implying facts of history and language that belong to vertically superposed layers, corresponding to the ages that have succeeded in the development of Romanian society, as well as within such ages, i.e. horizontally, referring to lexico-structural developments and changes imposed by the necessity to reflect the situation of geographical objects existing on site as accurately as possible, at a denominative and, implicitly, orientative level. The hereby article aims at presenting a certain class of names, i.e. the names of rulers; the class has been established vertically, but horizontally imposed by particular facts (in micro-toponymy) or by the insertion of authorities at various times in the determination of local nomenclature (in macro-toponymy).

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DUMITRU RADU POPESCU AND THE THEATRICAL NOVEL

Author(s): Ion Simut / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

The work of Dumitru Radu Popescu, one of the most important contemporary Romanian writers of the generation who became representative after 1960, is not stylistically and thematically fractured as a result of the political changes occurred in Romania after 1989. His uniqueness and originality are still rooted in the same areas of unusualness and baroque, including elements of theatricality. His novels continue to be conceived as investigations employed in any crime fiction. The writer’s masterpieces remain the two novels, F (1969) and Vanatoarea regala [The Royal Hunt] (1973) , but the themes and the style of the author are the same in his subsequent books of the epic cycle, Viața și opera lui Tiron B. [The Life and Work of Tiron B.] (1980-1982), where the juxtaposition of fantasy and documents enliven the narrative. His most recent novels, Falca lui Cain [Cain’s Jaw] (2001) and Calugarul Filippo Lippi si călugărița Lucrezia Buti [Filippo Lippi, the Monk, and Lucrezia Buti, the Nun] (also published in 2001), are constructed on a theatrical principle, organizing the narrative into dramatic acts and the characters’ speeches, into retorts and dialogues. The writer declares himself to be a partisan of the theatrical novel yet he builds his latest novels by combining four registers, corresponding to the four literary genres, namely, the epic, lyrical, dramatic, and the journalistic ones.

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EMINESCU – IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ATMOSPHERE OF 1990

Author(s): Lucian Chisu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

This article presents a few most significant interventions from the media of 1990 regarding Eminescu and his creation. In spite of the fact that the poet had died a century before and some tendentious interpretation of his work had been thoroughly amended, the public “atmosphere” and the tensions generated in the society reabsorb him, projecting him in the middle of a real “cyclone”, unforeseeable by manifestations or consequences. On the background of two years full of homage meanings (1989-1990), the interest in studies referring to Eminescu seems dominated by the prevalence of Eminescianism, a term that has not been established semantically yet, which indicates the orientation of the debates on the poet, from the sphere of philology to that of the “state of mind”, which differs from a soul to another.

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FRAGMENT, CZYLI POGRANICZE FILOZOFII I LITERATURY W PISARSTWIE EMILA CIORANA

Author(s): Patryk Szaj / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 27/2014

This article concerns fragmentary writing of Emil Cioran. The author tries to show that the fragment is a specific type of artistic creativity that is situated between literature and philosophy. The initial part of the article deals with the problem of modern fragmentarism that was born in the times of German romanticism. Then, the author investigates the causes of Cioran’s fragmentary writing, which are: the opposition to systematic philosophy, the opposition to modern idea of a literary „work” and the intellectual honesty which shows heterogeneity of life. All this makes the fragment very difficult to interpret: we wish to adopt the whole sense of it, but we cannot do this. Also, the title issue turns out to be unsolvable. Cioran escapes fixed categories. And fragment, as an unsuccessful, fractured discourse, can be both literature and philosophy, or none of them. That makes it similar to Jacques Derrida’s ideas of farmakon, aporia or différance.

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From “Under the Shadow of Death”: Choosing the Left as a Life Option

Author(s): Mihai Stelian Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Drawing on scholarship on transnationalism, this paper resorts to concepts such as “trans-ethnic identity” and “multiple social identities” for making sense of two autobiographical writings authored by scholars who articulated a leftist counter-memory in telling their life stories spanning before, during, and after Romanian socialism. The study compares and contrasts the memoirs of Andrei Roth and Ion Ianoși, arguing that their retrospective writings document the articulation of a different strand of memorialistic literature that challenges the hegemonic anti-communist politics of memory. By never recanting their leftist beliefs, their writings give voice to a Marxian counter-memorialistic account of the past that enriches the post-communist memoryscape shaped by what we suggest calling the carceral paradigm of Romanian communism.

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GALA GALACTION’S DIARY - A METAMORPHOSIS OF SUBJECTIVITY

Author(s): Emilia Ciorda? / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Gala Galaction’s diary is the most representative document of his literary creation. The authors of these types of subjective literature aim to place their own personalities in the world of knowledge. The writer’s search within the diary represents, in fact, exactly the dynamics of the literary act. The depth of the retrospectives grasps the reading impressions, the aesthetic and philosophical beliefs, the aspirations that the author was going to meet sometime. The Diary is a literary work of authentic value and, at the same time, a very important documentary source on the writer’s human and social biography, of his definition in his period.

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HORIA LOVINESCU’S JOCUL VIEȚII ȘI AL MORȚII ÎN DEȘERTUL DE CENUȘĂ OR THE PERPETUAL DISINTEGRATION

Author(s): Alin ?tefanu? / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The present paper brings into discussion ”Jocul vieţii şi al morţii în deşertul de cenuşă” (The Game of Life and Death in the Ashen Desert), play that is a reference point in Horia Lovinescu’s drama, having many symbols, metaphors and labyrinthine characters. Having a starting point in the Biblical myth of Cain and Abel, Horia Lovinescu imagines a complex universe which, in order to survive, requires the presence of both brothers. The created universe appears more like an evil, backwards clone of the Biblical Eden. The general end and the beginning of a world. It is an uncertain situation maintained along the action of the play going even beyond it.

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HOTEL EUROPE and the Exiled Dream

Author(s): Oana Pughineanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

In this paper I try to highlight the ambiguous voice of the writer Dumitru Țepenag, passing from author to auctor, in his exile through a Europe where characters are as “flags” on the map, moved from time to time, having no destiny or a clear direction. In his almost oneiric way, the writer tries to put together lives balanced between two worlds: on one hand, there is the world where meanings are so worn-out that they cannot convey anything any longer, and, on the other hand, there is the world of abstruse symbols that also fail to make sense. Hotel Europa is this passage where the two worlds collide, opening up a space that resembles the twilight zone. In this Hotel, as in any other, the most legible elements are the labels, the clichés, the points identified on a map (the cities where the characters are wondering: Budapest, Paris, München). Romanians (along with other East European figures) are walking through the “good” Western world bearing the clichés that Europe has fabricated about them: disabled beggars, cheaters, pimps, Gypsies. The “conclusions” appear rather quickly: for the writer, who is also a character in the novel, Romania is this “pathetic country full of misbehaving” and “the genius of the Romanian people” lies in “humour and transhumance. We're all nomad comedians.” Only a myth can make sense in this collage. The text becomes a way of surrendering to the impossibility to make a “realistic story” about Hotel Europe and the way people live in it.

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Iașul și ieșenii: (auto)imagologie literară Iasi and its inhabitants: literary (self) imagology

Author(s): Diana Vrabie / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2015

This study investigates the projections of Iasi and of its people as they are reflected in Alecu Russo’s, Mihail Kogalniceanu’s, Alecsandri’s and Costache Negruzzi’s 1848 prose in an attempt to devise literary (self) imagology. It is revealed as a patriarchal space split up between the orientalist logic and the semi-European mentality, giving birth to a game of images and counter- images, which are maintained by a continuous oxymoronic relation. The writers seek to reveal the effects of such representations on the collective imaginary, on a certain social, cultural or communication context, by highlighting national cultural stereotypes. They do it in different ways: playfully, objectively, good-naturedly, seriously, acidly, comically, ironically, or by means of parody or banter.

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