Ève nouvelle. Observations sur le roman européen moderne de l’entre-deux-guerres

Author(s): Aglika Popova / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2017

Within the scope of this article, examples from Bulgarian and Romanian literature, which are representative of Balkan literatures, have been used as the subject of a comparative study alongside examples from French literature. The thematic framework of the Biblical creation myth, and in particular the figure of Eve, allow for the identification of common perspectives. Ever since the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, humankind has been following the preordained path of mortality. However, the Biblical narrative does not end with the fall of man. The Savior's birth atones for the first woman’s sin of disobedience, and the Virgin Mary becomes the New Eve, mother of the living. Modern representations of Eve require a change of scene as the common sacred time setting is reversed to actual reality, where the character building is done through the issue of assurance of salvation. The New Eve takes on the characteristics of a fugitive and a murderess. Based on the cited body of works by Tchavdar Moutafov, Anna Kamenova, Liviu Rebreanu, and Mircea Eliade, this is the point where we begin to single out the contemporary messages of the European novel. The French writers who have been selected as object of comparison are François Mauriac and Jean Giraudoux.

ʽIMAGINARY TRANSLATIONʼ AS INTERTEXTUALITY, IN TWO HYPOSTASES

Author(s): Crenguţa Gânscă / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

In this article, we regard the concept of imaginary translation as being linked to intertextuality. To the extent an imaginary translation does establish programmatic intentions of communication with another text or with another literary model, it could be framed as such, it could pertain to intertextuality. One of the hypostases belogs to the writer who coined for the first time in Romanian literature the concept of imaginary translation, Vasile Voiculescu. The second hypostasis of ʽimaginary translationʼ is illustrated by another poet, Marin Sorescu, who reconsiders intertextuality. His approach to ʽimaginary translationʼ is a parodical one, as far as the form is concerned, in fact using the record of a double parody: he deconstructs not only the model of these texts, but also their ʽimaginary translationʼ.

ÎN CĂUTAREA LUI HARAP ALB. O INCURSIUNE ÎN UNIVERSUL CREAȚIEI GRAFICIANULUI LUDWIG DOMBROWSKY

Author(s): Raluca Petrilă-Fecioru / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2018

The Museum of the Union, of “Moldova” National Museum Complex in Iași, hosted a retrospective exhibition “Searching for Harap Alb” of graphic artist Ludwig Dombrowsky (1920-2007), between August 22 and September 10, 2018. Born in July 8, 1920, Ludwig Dombrowsky attended the Faculty of Agronomy in Iași (1944-1950), after which he held the position of research assistant. Since 1958, he has been a designer at the "“Moldova” National Museum Complex in Iași, carrying out his activity within the Ethnographic Museum of Moldavia until 1962, and later, between 1966 and 1983, within the History Museum of Moldavia. Within his artistic creation, the favorite themes have been taken from the world of fairy tales: Harap Alb (the white Moor) and The Song of the Nibelungs. These subjects have been rendered in many forms, from book illustration to monumental graphics.

ÎN LABIRINTUL VIEȚII ȘI AL CREAȚIEI ALĂTURI DE DOINA RUȘTI

Author(s): Georgeta Pompilia Costianu (Chifu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 41/2019

Doina Ruști is the contemporary author whose literary work presents a valid passport for Romanians all over the world. Hailed as one of the most appreciated female voices of contemporary literature, Doina Ruști has distinguished herself, especially through her diverse and strongly built novels which have become well-known worldwide, being translated into many languages. The novelist’s personal myth has a significant effect on her creation, therefore, it becomes a real adventure to enter her inner world. The wide range of themes, deeply-rooted in reality, as well as her rare gift of alternating the narrative layers with ease ranks her amongst the first class writers of Romanian contemporary literature.

ÎNTRE BINE ŞI RĂU: MOTIVUL ORBIRII ÎN BASMUL FANTASTIC ROMÂNESC

Author(s): Costel CIOANCĂ / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 22/2017

Refined psychological mechanism, blindness (from certain situations mythological to the daily life of some literary work) refers immediate and direct to the body transcended. The changes which the body deprived of sight is obliged to pass and the ways of trying to stay alive and connected, could not fail to weigh the psycho-cultural and traditional culture. Throughout this study, I tried to capture this psycho-cultural scenarios given by someone blindness. With the primary attitudes of someone evil (a very close relative) who does not hesitate to blind someone for one reason or another. With the emotional internalization also generated by a new state body. With projections and symbolic cultural behaviors associated with such mitem. I tried, more than phenomenological hermeneutic, to capture also the condition non-moral (in)decency of humanity who does not hesitate to make them one's moral injustice. From the enclosed space of pathology (pure), I tried to distinguish and emphasize the size of the symbolic value that a community such as traditional Romanian, both generating and consuming fairytale, attaches a divine intervention on someone unjustly blinded.Surely a possible cure to the fantastic epic, impossible in the real…

Între fugă şi aşteptare – personajul din proza scurtă a lui Dumitru Ţepeneag

Author(s): Iuliana Iancu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2020

The work demonstrates that Dumitru Tepeneag’s short stories is an incursion into a trivial world, where the struggle of human beings with automatism turns into an apparent escape in the oniric plan, where the same reality seems to capture everything. The corpus of texts selected for interpretation includes the three short prose volumes, analyzed from the perspective of a limiting universe, as a picture of human theater. The robotic characters form pictures from a reality of porcelain, seen as a confrontation at all levels. In an absurd reality, recomposed not necessarily by the oniric rules, the captive people suffer in a demanding existence precisely through its inaccuracy and uncertainty.

Între rai și iad. Angelologie și demonologie hristică

Author(s): Petru Adrian Danciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2020

The Jewish demonology during Christ's coming corresponds to a warrior messianism, capable of defeating the Roman occupation, seen as a divine punishment for unbelief. Jewish monotheism is subject to a foreign and unwilling power, another world that overlaps any desired politics and religiosity superior to any type of paganism. The world is ruled by warrior angels. They know the ascent and descent according to the divine will, Israel cannot escape the magnetic force they exert on the politics and religiosity of their peoples. If in Babylon Judaism developed its demonological beliefs, under the domination of the Roman Empire, Messianism knows its staging by asserting several personalities, one of them being Jesus Christ, son of Mary. His prophecy revolves around the idea of the divine Kingdom descending to earth, as well as the inherent opposition of the devil, manifested by the presence of false Christs. This belief is almost foreign to the Jewish demonology of the time. The idea of the coming Kingdom creates a strong confusion, the theologians of the time (scribes and Pharisees) associating the event with an open conflict against the Roman occupation, the Jews being seconded by the power of God, respectively by angels. Christ must respond differently to the need for freedom, and the claim to bear the divine appellation (Son of God) does not make sense, moreover, it is a blasphemy. The need for a divine sign, often required from Jesus, has its logical basis on this messianic, warrior expectation. The confusion grows all the more because, of not understanding its message, the purpose of the antichrists appears inexplicable. The research follows exactly these aspects, of the split parallel worlds, from the perspective of the crisis of Jewish monotheism and a demonology that makes it impossible to frame the saving model of Jesus in the politico-religious reality of the time. Although Christian theology holds that the time of Christ's coming was well chosen, He being the divine answer to this very crisis, the Judaism’s demonological view of the world corresponded less and less to the biblical prophecy. If its beginnings were situated in Babylonian captivity, the effects are seen in the distance given by the model of theological interpretation of the deeds of Christ, accused of working with the devil. Perhaps the historical moment was well chosen, but it did not correspond to the demonological mentality of the Jewish theology. Thus the Judaism is abandoned by the divinity, through the interposition of the Roman presence, facing an always announced divine kingdom. Moreover, the forgiveness of the enemy, his love does not correspond to the existing reality. Therefore, the utopian Christ's message is perceived as a blasphemy rather than an exhortation, hence the unilateral rejection of the idea that Christ is the king of the Jews.

Şi Eminescu râde…

Author(s): Daniela Petroşel / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2020

The paper investigates the literary strategies of Romantic irony in Mitologicale, a less known poem written by Mihai Eminescu. The text is openly subverting the rhetorical devices of Romantic poetry, becoming a self-parody of Eminescu’ great poems. The Romantic irony that nourishes this text mediates both textual comic references and an extratextual meditation on the role of the poet and of poetry.

ŞTEFAN AUG. DOINAŞ ÎNTRE MITIZARE ŞI REVIZUIRE

Author(s): Dumitru-Mircea Buda / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

The article explores the most important metamorphosis of the critical reception of Şt. Aug. Doinaş’s works, identifying the main directions of interpretation and reflecting upon the gradual construction of a myth of the writer as well as on the necesity of a reevaluation.

Ștefan BAGHIU, Vlad POJOGA, Maria SASS (Eds.), Ruralism and Literature in Romania, Peter Lang, 2019

Author(s): Maria Chiorean / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

Ștefan FIRICĂ, Autenticitatea, sensuri și nonsensuri. Teorii românești interbelice în contexte europene [Authenticity, Sense and Non-Sense. Interwar Romanian Theories in European Context], Tracus Arte, 2019

Author(s): Emanuel Lupașcu-Doboș / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

Ştefania Mihalache, Copilăria: reconstituiri literare după 1989

Author(s): Andrea Bodan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18-19/2020

Review of: Ştefania Mihalache, Copilăria: reconstituiri literare după 1989, Piteşti, Editura Paralele 45, 2019, 374 p.

Świat według Mateia Vișnieca

Author(s): Andrzej Zawadzki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 786/2020

Ţiganiada, formă inedită de manifestare a spiritului iluminist

Author(s): Paraschiva Buciumanu (Butnarașu) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2020

Ioan Budai-Deleanu was an encyclopaedic man, as the Enlightenment thinkers recommended, and he was preoccupied with the problems of his time, such as national history, the evolution of the Romanian language and the development of literature. This erudite finds his true calling in literary creation and becomes a writer dedicated to Şcoala Ardeleană, and one of the most important cultural masters at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the next. His best known literary work is the epic poem Ţiganiada, subtitled Poemation eroi-comico-satiric, an allegory built on numerous levels, in which the author gives an artistic synthesis, in the comic, satiric and parodic registers, the Enlightenment ideas, criticising mentality, and feudal institutions with all their moral defects. Moreover, Ţiganiada is an impressive demonstration about the poetic virtues of Romanian language, Ioan Budai-Deleanu being the first Romanian poet of European range, the author of a masterpiece which is not very well-known, unfortunately.

Țintă fixă: Viorel Mureșan

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Author(s): Viorel Mureșan,Aurel Pantea,Dumitru Chioaru,Lucian Vasiliu,Ioan Moldovan,Iulian Boldea,Andrei Moldovan,Adrian Alui Gheorghe,Vasile Dan,Mircea Bârsilă,Cristina Timar,Veronica Zaharagiu,Ion Pop,Călin Crăciun,Cornel Moraru,Gheorghe Perian,Senida Poenariu,Florina Lircă-Moldovan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 12/2019

This section is dedicated to a Romanian contemporary poet, belonging to the Echinox literary movement, Viorel Mureșan.

Zenacolia

Author(s): Al. Cistelecan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 03+04/2016

This paper discusses the main theme in Zeno Ghitulescu’s poetry, more specifically the contemplative nature of melancholy and its avatars.

ZOE DUMITRESCU-BUȘULENGA ȘI LUMEA REVISTELOR CULTURALE

Author(s): Silviu Mihăilă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Our paper aims at presenting Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga’s rich journalistic activity and, in the same time, applying a novel reading grid to her essays published in the most important Romanian cultural journals of the 20th century: „Secolul XX”, „Scânteia”, „România literară”, „Contemporanul”, „Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară”, „Luceafărul”, „Tomis”, „Cronica”, „Argeș”, „Ramuri”, „Magazin istoric”, „Steaua”, „Caiete critice”, „Convorbiri literare”, „Viața românească”, „Analele Universității București” etc. Being considered a prominent figure of the last century, truly involved in the Romanian social, cultural and literary climate, Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga was often seen as a literary critic situated between “old” and “new” or caught between two worlds. Therefore, we studied more than 150 articles trying to put in the spotlight her main areas of interest mirrored in the seven directions that we do consider her journalistic activity can be divided. More than simple articles, Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga’s writings bring into attention the imperative need of “human becoming” oriented towards moral values in life.

ZOGRU – THE INITIATING JOURNEY

Author(s): Florina (Moldovan) Cotoară / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 11/2017

The author's novel, Doina Rusti, Zogru, is a postmodern novel, with the "poor" story, which deconstructs the vampire myth of romantic literature, presenting it in a humanized hypostasis, subjected to human feelings: love, doubt, jealousy, friendship, hatred, envy . Zogru must be read as a novel of initiation, through the Eros-Thanatos trio, a journey. All these non-random encounters during his journey give Zogru the knowledge of human nature. Regardless of the century and the year, people are guided by the same instincts, Eros and Thanatos being the ones linking centuries between them. In the novel appears the essence - appearance game: Mihnea, a noble, has a despicable character, and the vampire Zogru is capable of empathy towards a helpless being and a judicial spirit. Irony is present as a form of masked attack on the social reality. In the epicenter of episodes remembered by Zogru, the lecturer finds acid arrows against some human typologies of the time. In this context, in which Zogru plays the role of destiny for all those encountered in his long journey, man is reduced to the condition of a puppet, incapable of leading his own existential route. So the book can also be read in the sense that the destiny is like a uroborous serpent, swallowing its tail, always creating cyclicality.

Zona de confort

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Author(s): Mihaela Vancea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05/2016

The text is a review signed by Mihaela Vancea, dedicated to a novel written by a Romania writer, entitled The World War of Smokers (2015).

Zugravul miniaturist

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Author(s): Francisko Kocsis / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 05/2016

The author of the review discusses the minimalist poetry of Ioan Milea from his 2013 volume, entitled Fulgurations.