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RADU COSAȘU AND THE COVERAGE OF THE NON-EVENIMENTIAL: OCOLUL PĂMÂNTULUI ÎN 100 DE ȘTIRI

Author(s): Kerstin Botezatu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Through his works, Radu Cosașu tried to erase the boundaries between literary genres, creating a new form of literarity. In ”Around the World in 100 News”, Cosașu practices both a journalistic and a memorialistic style. The ordinary, everyday facts are connected to the authorʼs subjectivity; the objective reality is duplicated by an internal existence, where the alleged news become part of Radu Cosașuʼs literary imaginarium.

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THE DANCE UTOPIA ‒ THE FATE OF THE RHYTHM

Author(s): Florentina Gabriela Stroe / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Liviu Rebreanu, through his artistic genius, will translate life through a fierce and indissoluble battle between the crushing forces. Starting from the vast array of the novel ,,Ion”, highlighting the dramatized balance of the destinies which are unable to evade from the tragic existence, advancing to the hallucinatory tragedy of conscience in ,,Pădurea Spânzuraţilor”, traveling in the imaginary world of the novel Adam and Eve to the memorable novel Ciulendra, Liviu Rebreanu is always interested in deciphering the fate of individuals.

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THE JOURNEY – A FORM OF DISSOLUTION IN LIVIU REBREANU’S NOVEL

Author(s): Florentina Gabriela Stroe / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Rebreanu’s spirituality is represented by his own powerful vocation of the ideality, an affection which, beyond of remaining at the declarative-nostalgic level, it obtains an appropriate conversion in many pages from his masterpiece. Through the perspective of his entire life and creation course and especially through his profound inner self whereby his literary activity is justified beyond its objective appearance, Rebreanu, is revealed as a very complex writer, opened to the modern expectancy. The human beings who are wondering through the novel, dominated, in a tragic-grave acceptation, by a gloomy fatality of the sacrifice, imposes a formal cadence of the evocation, as in the same narration manner is asked by the practice of the civilizations, by turns arisen from the times night and whose continuous progression is rather updating the feeling of the severe melancholy. A monumental feeling comes from the fragments in which Rebreanu places the individual human lives in the perspective of a cosmic destiny.

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TOZGREC. THE WORLD AS AN IMPERFECT SYSTEM AND THE REPULSION FOR FICTION

Author(s): Adriana Dana Listes Pop / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Ioan Petru Culianu considered Tozgrec a fantasy novel ("the first version of the fantastic novel I am writing (Tozgrec)” ), according to the letter sent to Mircea Eliade in September 1984. The book will be published posthumously, being allocated to his author function. Despite this confession, in the novel, the writer admits he feels repulsion for literature and fiction, generally, bluntly putting it that "literature disgusts me. I don’t want to write literature” in the Introduction. The affirmation is reinforced in the line „repulsion for short story”, the writer rushing to carefully clarify, on the same page, the fact that „this novel is not, properly, fiction, even though it seems to be”.

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THE REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMININITY IN VOICULESCU’S NATURE

Author(s): Iuliana Voroneanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Voiculescu intimate connection advocates the restoration between man and nature, which marked the existence of the Romanian people and destroyed modern civilization gradually. Voiculescu's stories create a world of meanings in which the real coexists with the fantastic. Thus nature can be regarded as a feminine entity in its many guises. Some feminine symbols that can be found in Voiculescu’ s Stories are water, rain, fish, the moon, the forest, the cave, the ground In the individual expression of the eternal feminine, there is always and everywhere around us, ever find love, sensuality, tenderness, sensitivity, charm, grace, purity, spontaneity and dedication.

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ON THE BORDER BETWEEN CULTURAL VALUES AND MEDICINE

Author(s): Cristina Veronica Andreescu,Liliana Florina Andronache / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Iancu Feldstein (1926-2010) graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Iasi and became a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, working in Colţea Hospital. Not even the teaching career was foreign to him as he taught in the Sanitary Technical School of Bucharest. In the literary field, the physician had the ability to create written art in an original way that blended essays with the concrete historical and scientific data, which has led to the creation of an “authentic writer, with a refined taste of arts and an opinioned commentator endorsed with the latest findings in various fields of knowledge. Lastly, it should be emphasized that physician-writer devotion propagated in Israel Romanian cultural values, honesty and objective spirit that recalls the dramatic eras of our history”.

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“A KINGDOM FOR A CIGARETTE”

Author(s): Simona-Catrinel Avarvarei / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2017

This paper visits some of the thoughts Antoaneta Ralian shared with her public throughout her long and amazingly prolific translating career. Antoaneta Ralian toiled with the minute religiousness of a hesychast that listens to the chant of the wasteland to unravel the mystery locked in each and every one of the 125 novels and plays she translated. She believed that the translator has to gain access to what lies hidden in the text, subtly interposing the decoding wish in between thought and translation. The translator sets the text free as long as it preserves its intrinsic wealth and beauty. The text is no longer a ‘closed’ narrative (Umberto Eco), as long as the translator deciphers its inner mechanisms ‘forcing’ it to reveal itself, opening it towards unlimited semiosis. Quoting various fragments from the last volume of memoirs she published in 2016, Nu cred în sfârșitul lumii [I do not believe in the end of the world], I take a bow of honour to one of the most beautiful minds of the Romanian culture.

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ANTON PANN BY LUCIAN BLAGA. POVESTEA VORBEI VS. CÂNTUL MUT

Author(s): Lucian Vasile Bâgiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

“Anton Pann” (1945), Lucian Blaga’s last drama is highly autobiographical. When writing about the popular poet, musicologist and composer Anton Pann, about his love for life and his sacrifice for his literary work, Lucian Blaga is writing, more than ever, about himself. “The Story of the Word” is to be made up out of the people’s proverbial sayings brought together by Anton Pann. The book becomes an artistic expression of the Romanian apriorism, of the ethnical genius in a balance realm. This is possible for the autochthonous “mioritic” space has preserved its connections to the magic even in the modern prosaism. The contacts with the age of the superstition, of the myth are not lost forever. The poet finds himself in a tragic state, caught between vow and denial. Just like Manole the Master Mason, he has both the awareness he is predestinated for the daimonic mission to create and the intuition he cannot dissociate the act of creation from the most specific feeling of human life, which is to be sacrificed, the love. On the night he creates “The Silent Song” the poet gives away everything for his work. The poet is anchored both in the near horizon and “beyond”, bearing both the human bit and the daimonic predestination in his genius nature, leaving from history and making a halt, eternally, into the story.

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ANOTHER POLIPHONY OF COLOURS AND SPACES IN BACOVIA’S POETRY

Author(s): Maria Holhoș,Andra Gabriela Holhoş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

Bacovia's work ranges within the evolution of Romanian symbolism reached at its maturity having Al. Macedonski, Mircea Demetriad, Traian Demetrescu, Stefan Petica, Dimitrie Anghel, Ovid Densusianu, Ion Minulescu as reference points. Bacovian works constitute the fourth stage, the stage of authentic symbolism, and the use of authentic and spontaneous symbols, of chromatic suggestions through intermediary hues in order to preserve the idea of impression, the conversion of musical instruments into poetical motifs as well as the special expressive structures create a specific unique universe. Bacovian lyrics continue to impress through the poet's effort to adopt a direct language with meaningful values capable of rendering human experience, be it at a certain period of life or overwhelmed by a sinister usually irremediable mood. In poetry, the bacovian atmosphere distinguishes itself through the harmony of inner and outside scenery and above all through the complementarity of space and colour.

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THE WRITING OF THE DISSOLUTION AND THE REGIMEN OF THE DENIAL. NEW PARTICULARITIES

Author(s): Doina-Emanuela Vieriu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

The study offers a possible certification through the manifestation in discourse of the new dynamic organisation model of the imaginary in Blecher’s work „Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată”, as an unanswerable syntax model of the denial, of that type of writing whose imagistic resorts can be identified in a register of the dissolution. In this case, our interest was in the "decomposed" units from the structure of the imaginary : the projection of the oval space, the fall, the vindicative gestuality born from the character’s experience in relation with the topos’ forms, the imagistic figurality of the time and the liaison character-object, whose insidious relation causes a "stereoscopic" fragmentation of the identity, a replacement of the alive with the amorphous state. The dissolution process was observed from the perspective of a "concomitant" movement in the lecture: the relation with the main thematic units of the imaginary coincides inherently with a sequential analysis of the Romanian discourse from the perspective of a "golemic" grammar ; therefore, the failures, the significance of the double, the split of the self, the discoursive dissolution as interface of an incisive negatory speech represent the elements that offer in Blecher’s writing a Romanian discoursive halo with undeclared "deviation", though perceivably different from the classic rhetoric of the narrativion.

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SADOVEANU’S NOVEL BETWEEN MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM

Author(s): Ion Popescu-Brădiceni / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2017

The transformations of Mihail Sadoveanu’s book emerge from the myth of creation and get developed in the domain of the imaginary. They allow for a certain look on literature, a particular one, to whom one can only credit for a certain manner to make a reading: as a dictation of the writing, arranged around the metamorphoses of the writer, still as a certain way in which to conceive the writing at the interference of an intrafiction-metafiction-transfiction triad. The programmed craftsmanship in the ceremonial of Sadoveanu’s storytelling is that reservoir, manneristically inexhaustible and happy. In this article’s author vision, Mihail Sadoveanu’s novel is self-representation and antirepresentation. In context, the meaning reproduction is diachronic-synchronic (that is to say paradigmatic-syntagmatic), as the paper has patience, and the reader doesn’t. In search of the lost time, the big writer rediscovers the space and gravity law. Ideal entities of language resignify the expressivity of all the ‘’matters’’. Mihail Sadoveanu is a sort of an ideal avatar of the good of Literature. (I.P.B.).

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SYMBOLIC MEANINGS AND FOLK BELIEFS IN THE ROMANIAN LITERATURE

Author(s): Mirabela Rely Odette Curelar / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

THE FICTIONAL PROSE IS AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT FOR THE ROMANIAN LITERATURE. DEVELOPING A LARGE NUMBER OF THEMES WHICH ARE REPEATED FROM ONE STORY TO ANOTHER; IN ROMANIAN LITERATURE CREATES A MEMORABLE TYPOLOGY OF FANTASTIC CHARACTERS AND AN IMAGINARY GREATE SPACE. THIS IS THE ROMANIAN SPACE; A PLACE FULL OF SIGNS; SYMBOLS; POPULAR BELIEFS OF INITIATING; A PLACE WITH STREETS THAT HIDE ANCIENT MYSTERIES; ANDINDIVIDUALS WEARING THEM WITHOUT KNOWING; THE MYTHS.

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CREATING CITY CHIC. THE PARISIAN INFLUENCE ON INTERWAR BUCHAREST FASHION

Author(s): Sonia Doris Andraș / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 21/2018

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role contemporary French gender philosophies had played in its creation. For this, I will investigate the nature of this inter-capital dialogue in order to determine the intersections and contrasts, which I will integrate within the larger cultural, social, economic and political context in Romania, France, and worldwide. I will treat women’s fashion as the materialization of multiple factors pertaining to interwar Bucharest’s private and public life habits, as a capital embracing both modernity and tradition with an original tone. My sources include relevant local, national and international publications, including periodicals, contemporary books, guides and memoirs. These will also provide a clearer scope of the Parisian influence through articles and fashion spreads, but also through the multitude of ads published throughout interwar Romania. Furthermore, I will underline the theoretical and aesthetic influence Romanians had on Parisian fashion from two points of view. The first will be the case of women used by artists or public and private entities as models or passive agents in fashion creation and dissemination. I will use the Miss Romania pageants as a general example, alongside the more complex story of dancer Lizica Codreanu and her connection to Constantin Brâncuși and Tristan Tzara, and through him to Sonia Delaunay. For the second category I will use the example of Alice Cocea and Elvire Popesco as movie fashion icons, and of Princess Marthe Bibesco as both a style influencer and fashion theoretician

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Writing Back: Identity and Representation in The Journal of Dracula

Author(s): Anca-Luminita Iancu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

The Journal of Dracula (2004) by Marin Mincu is Vlad Dracula’s fictional journal, in which historical Vlad Ţepeş, the ruler of the Romanian province of Wallachia in the fifteenth century, reacts to the historical events that occurred during a period of one and a half years (February 1463 to August 1464) when he was imprisoned by the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus in the castle of Visegrád (Hungary). Vlad Dracula’s quest for identity is depicted in a multilayered narrative that unfolds in contact zones between the East and the West, and his journal entries illustrate the tensions between his private story and the public history, which has cast him into the role of a bloodthirsty ruler because of his impaling practices. Thus, this essay examines the complexity of Vlad Dracula’s quest to claim his voice and identity by writing back to his contemporary enemies.

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„Noaptea de Sânziene” – o mitologie a transcendenței și a erosului. Literatura ca mijloc de vulgarizare a miturilor

Author(s): Mihaela Rusu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2017

Dans la littérature roumaine, le solstice de juin constitue une source de confusion référentielle, le mythe étant associé à la fois aux écrits d'Eliade et au roman de Sadoveanu. Pour la culture roumaine, l'oeuvre de Mircea Eliade représente un cas particulier, celui d'un homme de lettres, doublé par un scientifique. Étant convaincu que la littérature est „la fille de la mythologie”, Eliade avance dans ses univers narratifs, bien qu'il ne reconnaisse pas toujours, les concepts générées par les recherches du scientifique, spécialiste de l'histoire des idées et des croyances religieuses. Il détérmine la migration du mythe, du rite et du symbole, des termes spécifiques au science de l'érudit, vers une sphère épique, d'origine fantastique, qui plonge subrepticement dans une dimension sacrée. Étant obsédé par la force régénératrice du mythe du solstice, Eliade transpose, d'une manière compensatoire, cette obssession dans son chef-d'oeuvre, qu'il intitule „La forêt interdite” [Noaptea de Sânziene]. Devant ce chef-d'oeuvre, le lecteur est provoqué à lire en paralèlle le roman d'Eliade et le roman de Sadoveanu, intitulé presque identique, „Nopțile de Sânziene” [Les nuits de Saint Jean], pour mettre en dialogue la matière du même mythe, transfiguré par l'imagination d'un écrivain et d'un érudit.

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Tipuri de discurs în textele românești ale Hertei Müller

Author(s): Anca Gorban-Cojocariu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2017

Analysing Herta Müller’s mixture of poems in ,,It is or is it not Ion” I drew the conclusion that irony and sarcasm are the most important tools the author uses to form discourse. The study is meant to describe the means by which irony is produced in the ironic contents and the way this is interpreted by a third person , focusing at the same time on the forms of the media discourse , thus gaining meaning by means of irony through antisentence , fake naivety, underestimation, hyperbolizing, quote and simple meaning irony. Through all the above mentioned, Herta Müller gives her discourse hidden meanings, which her readers attempt to interpret, decode depending on the situation of communication they take part in and the agreement between the reader and the author. Herta Müller’s discourse is sarcastic, as a large number of her poems bring forward situations, facts, actions, circumstances and absurd, untrue, incoherent, illogical events, which all are not the norm for the decent society of good taste. To conclude, the most used means of creating sarcasm is irony through underestimation and hyperbolizing.

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Discursul absurd în opera luiMax Blecher

Author(s): Nicoleta Hristu (Hurmuzache) / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2017

This paper aims at identifying one particularity of Max Blecher’s work, as form of the innocent comic. Taking over Marian Popa’s statement – the absurd materializes as the reverse of the pragmatics’ logic – there will be a selection of passages whose linguistic foundation is nonsense and which are representative of Max Blecher’s prose. First of all, this paper analyses an episode from Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată that captures the imaginary dialog between the narrator-character and Ozy in Weber house, where the absurd comic materializes in a ludic note. Second of all, some behavioural aspects of the characters in all Blecher’s novels that betray the absurdity of existence will be taken into consideration: the act of kneeling down in the garden of an unknown woman, the moment of Emanuel leaving Solange, the image of the invalid harlequin. To sum up, the analysis of Blecher’s discourse will reveal both the lucidity of language and the ontological intensity, as complementary manifestations of the absurd comic.

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Discursul critic de receptare contemporană a operei lui Marin Preda. Repere conceptuale

Author(s): Ovidiu Marcu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18/2017

The critical reception of one writer depends in most cases of the political or historical context in which his or her writings are written and published, may the context be auspicious or, on the contrary, may it stand under the sign of some restraints of ideological origin, which are meant to put their imprint in an overwhelming extent on the destiny of the writings and by consequence – on the writer’s destiny. Marin Preda’s literary work has benefited along the time of different attitudes from the literary criticism, whose chameleonic attitude can be explained from the historical and political point of view to which it was always confronted, because the critic’s voice was rarely the voice of a conscience and most of the times a voice of an ideology or of all sorts of complexes. Critics’ prejudgments concerning Preda’s work have led to controversies of getting his message and also to the need to clarify some dilemmas and concessions which the writer is supposed to have made in a moment of historical raving. Therefore, one can distinguish two moments, located on different levels of time, concerning the interpretation of Preda’s work: the critical reception of his time and the current critical reception.

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Hajduk novels in the nineteenth-century Romanian fiction: notes on a sub-genre

Author(s): Roxana Patraș / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

In the context of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Romanian literature, hajduk novels and hajduk short fiction (novella, short-story, tale) are called to bring back a lost “epicness”, to give back the hajduks their lost aura. But why did the Romanian readers need this remix? Was it for ideological reasons? Did the growing female readership influence the affluence of hajduk fiction? Could the hajduk novels have supplied the default of other important fiction sub-genres such as children or teenage literature? The present article supports the idea that, as a distinct fiction sub-genre, the hajduk novels convey a modern lifestyle, attached to new values such as the disengagement from material objects, the democratization of access to luxury goods and commodities, and the mobility of social classes. Clothing, leisure, eating/ drinking/ sleeping/ hygiene, work, military and forest/ nomad life, and ritual items that are mentioned in these novels can help us correlate the technical tendencies reflected in the making of objects to a particular ethnicity (Romanian).

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Antilethe – o revistă pentru rememorarea exilului românesc

Author(s): Camelia Zăbavă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2019

A literary magazine having a distinct character among all Romanian publications is Antilethe. Its name remind us of the Lethe River (the river of oblivion in Greek mythology) because the main purpose of the founder – Mihaela Albu – together with the editorial board - is an act of restitutio. In short – to bring into attention of the contemporary readers the cultural activity of the Romanian intellectuals from exile. Each issue has a specific subject - Vintilă Horia (no. 1), Mircea Popescu (no. 2), Ștefan Baciu (no. 3) and Camilian Demetrescu (no. 4). Our presentation is mainly focused on the life and activity of the great artist Camilian Demetrescu.

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