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Margareta Miller-Verghy ou un destin de femme-écrivain dans la première moitié du XXe siècle

Author(s): Mihaela Bacali / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2015

Margareta Miller-Verghy is an unknown writer from de end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th. She is a bilingual francophone writer and has created novels, education manuals; she has a rich correspondence and an active investment in both social and intellectual life of the time. The article aims to delineate the history of her life from that of other writers of the time and to make her more visible in the field of literary history.

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Reconfigurări ale fantasticului în proza central şi est-europeană actuală

Author(s): Catrinel Popa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 68/2019

In the present article we’ll focus on several novels that attempt at rewriting the recent past of ex-communist countries by bringing into foreground the political. police, an institution that embodied in totalitarian regimes the notion of the absolute Evil. What distinguishes such writings as Dumnezeiţele din Moravia [The Goddesses of Žítková] by Katerina Tučková, György Dragoman’s Rugul [The Bone Fire], and Răzvan Rădulescu’s Viaţa şi faptele lui Ilie Cazane [The Life and Deeds of Elijah Cazane] appears to be the manner in which their authors succeed in conveying a complex, polyphonal representation of the communist past by using fantastic or grotesque elements, instruments that prove their efficiency anytime an irrational reality shatters our values and beliefs

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Eminescu, Benjamin Fondane, Paul Celan: Yves Bonnefoy et les poètes roumains

Author(s): Gisele Vanhese / Language(s): French Issue: 64/2015

Although many critics have underscored the connections between the work of Yves Bonnefoy and Italy or Greece, none have analyzed the possible of a connection – however slim – with Romania. Our essay examines the relations, often overlooked, between the French poet and certain Romanian poets, taking a cue from unpublished interviews. In the first part, we underline the existence of a spiritual and poetic community between Yves Bonnefoy, Lermontov and Mihai Eminescu. In the second part, we pinpoint the various moments in which the existential and artistic paths of Yves Bonnefoy and of Paul Celan come together, revealing an unknown interpretation on the part of the French author of Celan’s poem Mandorla. In the third part, we try to identify the hidden relations between the work of Yves Bonnefoy and that of Benjamin Fondane, particularly in Baudelaire et l’expérience du gouffre, in order to demonstrate the degree to which the French writer may be included in Fondane’s critical and philosophical posterity.

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Somnul raţiunii naşte monştri: Ionesco şi „panica politică”

Author(s): Giovanni Rotiroti / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 71/2022

Starting from the thought of Jean-Luc Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe, this article aims to investigate the “political panic” that arises at the crossroads of identification and narcissism. These redefine the place of the Other in the formation of society, from the intersection between the individual psyche and collective life, where life appears to be committed to defending itself, in an auto-immunizing movement, which (to the extent that it defends itself) tends to reverse itself into its opposite. The radicalization of the self-preservation drives coincides in Freud works with the “death drive”, whose movement appears regressive, aimed at restoring the restlessness of life to its original state of rest. Instead of opening itself to the Other, life closes itself and chooses death. Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe were able to grasp in the “political panic” the fragile relationship between the “withdrawal of the politician” and the beginning of politics, and this particular aspect of life in common also concerns the play of Ionesco, Rhinocéros. The Romanian writer denounces in France the fascist ideological contagion of a whole generation of writers, between the two wars, highlighting the “death drive”, which moves the coryphes of political totalitarianism in Romania towards the spasmodic competition, fanaticism, cynicism, and, in some cases, towards crime. It is imaginatively cloaked in religious idealism understood as an all-encompassing “spiritual” knowledge, free of stretch marks.

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KÜNSTLER(FIGUR): FIGURA ARTISTULUI LA THOMAS MANN ŞI CONEXIUNI CU ESTETICA LUI TUDOR VIANU. RECURENŢE ŞI ANALOGII CONCEPTUALE

Author(s): Stefana Duncea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2022

Building upon previous research on Tudor Vianu’s aesthetics, the current article delves into the issue of art and the artist, a central theme in the aesthetic systems of the early 20th century (as exemplified by the Romanian critic T. Vianu) as well as in the literature of that epoch. The applied analysis concentrates on Thomas Mann, for whose work these issues were of major concern. The dialogue is explicit: the German author was of great interest for the Romanian theorist (Vianu was awarded his doctorate in Tübingen in 1923) and so we consider worth examining the shared standpoints regarding art in their approaches and the European concern of the time for the artist. The Künstler(figur) is discussed here based on Vianu’s aesthetics, but with an applied focus on Thomas Mann’s ambivalent artist protagonists (Tonio Kröger, Gustav Aschenbach, Adrian Leverkühn etc.), their identity and symbolism.

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La pratique de la lecture, un jeu pour la connaissance de soi. Étude de cas: Simona Popescu et Annie Ernaux

Author(s): Adnana Giroud (Popescu) / Language(s): French Issue: 12/2023

Reading is a true indicator of the social history of literary reception, with great heuristic value. The evolution of the female act of reading translates the evolution of the practices which found the emancipation of a whole social category, but also the evolution of the relationship of a person to herself, therefore the access of the individual to his interiority through the paradoxical discovery of otherness.This article will study the different stages of the transformation of the female reading gesture over the centuries, with the aim of showing how the historical-cultural reorganization – represented by the two waves of female literacy and the important social movements of the 18th century – has fundamentally influenced the reading practices and the reception activity. It will also insist, thanks to a case study, on the transsubjective valences associated with the act of reading, which allow the conversion to oneself of the individual by the readjustment of the initial socio-cultural capital and the access to a form of transpersonal truth, a self-reflective approach that combines reading and playing.

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Prof. univ. dr. Octavia Nedelcu la ceas aniversar

Author(s): Lidija Čolević / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

Activitatea didactică și științifică, precum și personalitatea profesorului universitar dr. Octavia Nedelcu, filolog de carieră și reputat specialist în domeniul slavisticii ne oferă o dimensiune integrativă extrem de generoasă și valoroasă în contextul academic sârbesc și românesc pentru a o omagia la 65 de ani de viață și peste 30 de ani de activitate universitară.

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Nicolae Mareș: între iubire și responsabilitate

Author(s): Constantin Geambașu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

După absolvirea studiilor de Filologie Polonă la Universitatea din Varșovia, Nicolae Mareș a fost repartizat la Ministerul Afacerilor Externe și a lucrat până la pensionare ca diplomat. A revenit în capitala Poloniei în mai multe rânduri, ocupând diferite funcții în cadrul Ambasadei Române de la Varșovia și străbătând toate treptele carierei diplomatice până la cea de ministru plenipotențiar și contribuind în mare măsură la dezvoltarea relațiilor diplomatice și culturale româno-polone. Excelent cunoscător al limbii și culturii polone, precum și al realităților din Europa Centrală și de Sud-Est, a fost permanent preocupat de înțelegerea mecanismului vieții diplomatice, care presupune nu doar pasiune, ci efort și studiu sistematic. Se poate afirma că de-a lungul vieții, Nicolae Mareș și-a exercitat profesia cu dăruire și profesionalism, devenind unul dintre cei mai cunoscuți și apreciați profesioniști în domeniu.

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Fantasme genealogice și identități sublimate: Mihail Sadoveanu, Mateiu Caragiale, Panait Istrati

Author(s): Paul Cernat / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 47/2022

This study aims to explore the typological links between the writings of three Romanian prose writers in the 1th half of the 20th century, defining for the Eastern European counter-modernity: Mateiu I. Caragiale, Panait Istrati and Mihail Sadoveanu. We explore their Balkanic (Southern) genealogy, as well as their biographical imaginary and cultural substratum, and we also talk about the points of convergence/divergence between their narratives. The aim is to identify a common pattern of those writings in which the biographic was reshaped and artistically sublimated by the ghosts of the South-Eastern tradition.

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LES ENJEUX DE LA FRANCOPHONIE EN ROUMANIE. LA CORRESPONDANCE DIPLOMATIQUE DE LA FIN DU 19e SIÈCLE. L'ANNÉE 1883

Author(s): Anca Porumb / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The War of Independence in 1877, followed by the Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin in 1878, gave Romania the status of a free state. The country begins a new stage by trying to make its way alongside Western powers. The 510 letters that are part of the volume, exchanged by Romanian diplomats after the war, in the year 1883, give evidence of how much the Romanian diplomatic missions have struggled to renew with the countries of the West, the French language having an important place in the foreign policy of the Romanian state about to be formed.

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Cartographies of Lost Places: An Oriental Oasis on the Danube River

Author(s): Lorena-Clara MIHĂEȘ / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Situated at the crossroads of East and West, there once existed a small and enchanting island on the Danube River, which separated the Ottoman Empire from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Throughout its lengthy and intricate history, the island had various names and was ruled by diverse forces. Ada-Kaleh now only exists in the memories of those who once inhabited it, many of whom have long since passed away. Submerged in 1970 to make way for the construction of the Iron Gates hydroelectric power plant, Ada-Kaleh continues to pique curiosity and bewitch the imagination of people who have heard of it but have never had the chance to set foot on it. Its disappearance from the map does not mean it has fallen into complete oblivion. Rather, it endures in multiple forms of artistic expression, including exhibitions, documentaries, novels, poetry, and movies. The present endeavour aims to explore the tumultuous history of this long-lost Oriental haven and to examine the various ways in which it has been recreated and reimagined in popular culture.

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ROMÂNIA – PROIECTUL UNUI CREUZET CULTURAL ÎN PERIOADA REGINEI ELISABETA A ROMÂNIEI. STRUCTURI MATRICIALE COMUNE ÎN OPERA REGINEI ELISABETA ȘI A SCRIITORULUI RAINER MARIA RILKE

Author(s): Alexandra Maria Bocșa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2023

The paper aims to capture one of the multiple hypostases of Romania as a kingdom, under the political, cultural and diplomatic guide of the members of the Romanian dynasty. The most noble of these hypostases remains that of an European cultural crucible, a soul project of the first queen of Romania, Elisabeta, who wanted to increase the influence of her country of adoption by transforming it into an European cultural epicenter. The effort, the imagination, the talent, but especially the chosen way in which Queen Elisabeta decided to represent Romania and support it, has a material form also: the Jugendstil box, where almost 200 Austrian poets have encapsulated their respect and their admiration for the Royal Family and Romania, leaving a political and cultural seal on Romania's position on the map of Europe. In this box there is also the tribute of the writer Rainer Maria Rilke.The purpose of this work is to draw the borders of this cultural dialogue between Queen Elisabeta and the writer Rainer Maria Rilke and to show the communicational product of the two cultures, Romanian and Austrian. What are the fundamental creative matrices that have been exchanged? What perspectives and visions, themes, literary reasons, beliefs and literary instruments have been discussed and enriched? But, even more important, how are depicted these souvenirs of friendship in the personal work of the two writers?As a research methodology, it will be opted for the diachronic course of the cultural dialogue between the two writers, comprising the manuscripts sent as a tribute by Rainer Maria Rilke to Queen Elisabeta through the Jugendstil box, the possible mentions in correspondence or memoirs and not least, the work will opt for a comparative analysis of a selection of poems pertaining to the two writers. Based on some matrical elements, which are the basis of the creation belief of the two writers, the selection of works will be analyzed comparatively, emphasizing both the similarities and the differences between the stylistic tools and visions, and, more importantly, the way in which the cultural dialogue between the two writers contributed to the modeling of their individual poetic art and cultural perspectives.

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Кралят, комунистите и римската кръв: машинен анализ на румънските национални химни

Author(s): Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

Automated as well as manual analyses of the texts of national anthems across the world may allow quantification of the way the relative weight of the preferred topics as well as the literary style and the sentiment score (positive, neutral, or negative) differ across continents and cultures. Reported here is a detailed automated analysis of the Romanian national anthem, in comparison with previous anthems over the past ~100 years. Romania is an atypical case in Eastern Europe, having changed five anthems over the past ~100 years, distinctly more than other countries in the region. The sentiment scores change dramatically across time – with two changes from strongly positive to neutral and back. The dominant topics and the grammar also change, with an overall tendency to move away from collectivistic and authoritarian topics to more individualistic ones. These trends may reflect a balance between changes in political systems (and national aspirations) and a less variable contribution brought by language and culture

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Posibilitățile și realitățile poeziei românești douămiiste

Author(s): Diana Florentina Popescu / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2021

This paper examines the current state of Romanian poetry in the 2000s, its classifications, and its characteristics. From the multitude of themes and poets, I have chosen to follow the daily existence of Ofelia Prodan, Claudiu Komartin, and Liliana Elena Popescu. The popularity of the theme related to the poetry of the 2000s did not lead to a theoretical clarification of some concepts with which it has operated for almost 20 years. The possibilities and realities of the Romanian poetry of the 2000s are multiple, and I consider it an advantage.

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HYPOSTASES OF ROMANIAN FEMALE PROSE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Author(s): Carmen Gabriela Popa / Language(s): Italian Issue: 35/2023

The questions that the woman and, especially, the woman-creator, the woman-writer asked herself over time, the existential whys that brought her out of the inertia of self-condemnation, led her to focus on a more grounded, deeper analysis of herself, of her own marginalization, of the reasons why, just her mere coming into the world, meant another Eve.

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Copilul, vocea naratoare în romanul românesc contemporan al ultimelor trei decenii

Author(s): Mariana Jitari / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The contemporary Romanian novel of the last three decades, having at its center a child-character, changes the reader’s attitude towards its value also through the building of the narrative from the narrator’s outlook. The author of the text addresses an adult reader, but entrusts the narration to a child’s voice. In this case, both the author and the reader pass a comprehension test, the first simulating authentically the innocent speech, the other receiving the figurative narration as a narration itself (T. Todorov).If Aristotle does not value the character so much, considering that the interest towards this removes the narration from the innate sense (the action matters, the character being just its agent), then, in the modern novel that we analyze, the narrator’s voice deserves special attention. Through it we follow the growing up, transformation and degeneration, education, disillusionment of the child-character.In this article we propose to state the relationship between the author and the narrator, to clarify the hypostasis of the narrator in the text, to constitute the typology of the narrator specific to the contemporary Romanian novel. Capitalizing „The Dictionary of Narratology” by Gerald Prince, we will identify in some novels of the last three decades the narrative voices exposed or faded, homodiegetic or heterodiegetic, dramatized, authorial, having the role of an agent etc.

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Lirică populară românească tradusă în limbile germană şi engleză

Author(s): Iordan Datcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2023

Două cărţi, care au meritul de a face cunoscute cititorului străin valori reprezentative din folclorul românesc: Lucian Blaga, Antologie de poezie populară. Volksdichtung. Eine Anthologie. Traducere în limba germană de Artur Greive, Gerda Schüler şi Ion Taloș. Ediţie critică (studiu introductiv, izvoare, comentarii, variante ale textelor, bibliografie, indici) de Ion Taloș. Anexe: fragmente din Spaţiul mioritic, de L. Blaga. Traducere de Iulius Draser (Cluj-Napoca, Editura Limes, 2022, 306 p.) și Sanda Golopenția, Learn to sing, my mother said. Songs of the Women of Breb. Hori de femei din Breb. Translated by Sanda Golopenția and Peg Hausman (Bucureşti, Editura Spandugino, 2022, 305 p.).

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Author(s): Anne DURUFLE,Mircea Iorgulescu,Jan VLADISLAV,M. D. GHEORGHIU,Matei Vişniec,Edgar REICHMANN,Ion Pop,Sebastian Reichmann,Thomas BAZIN,Dan Culcer / Language(s): French Issue: 01/1991

Review of: Voyages à l’Est (Récits), Balland-Maison des Écrivains, 1990 PlOTR SZEWC, L’Evanescence des choses Traduit du polonais par Éric Morin-Aguilar Éditions Noir sur Blanc, 1990 Ludwik Flaszen, Le Chirographe Traduit du polonais par Adrien Le Bihan Editions La Découverte, 1990 La Poésie tchèque moderne Anthologie rassemblée par Petr KRAL Belin, 1990 Quinze poètes roumains Choix de Dumitru Tsepeneag, L’Extrême contemporain, 1990 Lena Constante, L’Évasion silencieuse, trois mille jours seule dans les prisons roumaines La Découverte, 1990 Gregor von Rezzori, Mémoires d’un antisémite Traduit de l’allemand par Jean Dusay L’Âge d’Homme, Paris, 1990 Claude Karnoouh, L’Invention du peuple Chroniques de Roumanie Arcantère, « Essais », 1990 JlRI WEIL, Un auteur à découvrir Alexandre Papilian, Des mouches sous un verre Albin Michel, 1990 Helene Carrere D'Encausse, La Gloire des nations ou la fin de l'Empire soviétique Fayard, 1990 J. M. Rymkiewicz, La Dernière Gare Traduit du polonais par Véronique Platte Laffont, « Pavillons », 1989

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MEDIUL DIPLOMATIC DIN SECOLUL AL XIX-LEA ŞI EMANCIPAREA LIMBII ROMÂNE

Author(s): Adrian Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 17/2010

The documents we find at the National Archives offer us surprising details about a part of the Romanian writers that were active in the 19th century, about their diplomatic role. The French language and spirit make it through to the Romanian lands together with the extension of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. The French current was introduced also through the Russian diplomatic environment. The French Revolution also contributed to its expansion. In 1800 the young boyars were instructed to build the new political class and culture with the goal to escape from under Turkish dominion. This is how the urge of studying the French culture appeared and also the urge of gaining a national literature. In this period the Romanian diplomatic writers manage to fulfill many translations and many original works inspired by the French literature. Even the diplomatic mail are written with a French influence. The development of the Romanian language in the 19th century is also due to the Latin current that was promoted by „Şcoala Ardeleană”. This current extended to the Romanian lands and it was taken by the Romanian diplomatic writers of that century. Another factor that influenced the evolution of the Romanian language are the notes and chancellery mails in which there can be found several references towards the necessity of supporting the national language through setting up the Romanian Academy. All these great dreams have been fulfilled within the first days after prince Al.I. Cuza’s abdication. On February 11th, 1866, C.A. Rosetti presented the “Romanian Literary Society” project to the Council of Ministers. The first session was held on August 1st, 1866 and it was the start on the road of absolute emancipation of the Romanian language. According to it’s statute, the main roles of the academic society were the development of the Romanian language and literature, setting the compulsory orthographic norms of the Romanian language, the study of the Romanian national history and the encouragement of research in the most important scientific domains.

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« La vie de l’écrivain est dans l’ombre de l’écriture, mais l’écriture est une forme de vie » − quelques réflexions sur la « bio/graphie » de Visniec

Author(s): Sylwia Kucharuk / Language(s): French Issue: 20/2023

This article is an attempt to describe the reciprocal influence of Matéi Visniec’s life and work. Based on Dominique Maingueneau’s theory of literary context and the paratopia related to it, we try to go beyond the socio-political context of Romania at the relevant time, which undoubtedly influenced the then-young writer’s perception of the world. We are, however, more interested in Visniec’s specific attitude, reflected in his work, of facing the regime and censorship that forbade the publication and exhibition of his plays and the resulting paratopia. In line with Maingueneau’s notion of bio/graphie, we try to show that Visniec’s work both reflects his life experiences and shapes his life.

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