A Waste of Shame

Author(s): Dragoș Avădanei / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

This is a study focusing on six topological variants of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129; the concept of “topologies of culture” is borrowed from George Steiner’s After Babel, and refers to all kinds of transformations that a text – a cultural artefact for that matter – can go through, as a result of various perspectives upon it; topologies thus include paraphrase, translation, parody, burlesque, lampoon, pastiche, adaptation, imitation, parallelism, etc. Our six (types of) variants are: the original sonnet proper, a film that takes its title from the first line, a translation – in fact, two versions – into modern English, a prose translation into Romanian, criticism on the sonnet (five approaches), a Romanian literary version, and its re-translation into English; all together (and many other potential ones) are supposed to provide a complex picture of the meanings that can be extracted from the original.

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.

ABOUT SPACES, LIMITS AND WANDERINGS IN ʺA WOMAN FOR APOCALYPSEʺ, BY VINTILA HORIA

Author(s): Liliana Danciu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

The exile people live on their consciousness a real tragedy of a breaking off a sacred forgotten thing. They are forced to abandon it, but they'll miss it a lot. They'll miss it as much as Adam will always miss that "rib" which he desires tragically to obtain it with every embrace of the loved woman. The phenomenon of the exile represent a limited situation, through the man needs get lost in the unknown, estranging from the edenic place of "At home", assuming the Stranger condition with all that the popular and cultural literature has invested him. Even if the image of "At home" suffers some negative mutations from the hypostasis of the Stranger in a new world, which doesn't desire him, will establish him to revalue positively that Lost Paradise. Vintilă Horia is a great Romanian writer, who has unfortunately known the exile because of the contamination of "At home", which had become a space of reprisals and injustice. He was adopted by Spain, which has become another "At home" since he died. The novel A women for Apocalypse valorizes positively the feminine, so the feminine becomes the "key" of the mystical, ontological and spiritual rescue of the whole humanity. If the men bring about the war and hatred, the woman brings about the rescue, through her love. Time is not the enemy of the man any more, but it is his ally, because it hasn't got any power to terrorize and the death has been defeated by love. "At home" means the absolute love of a woman, who succeeds in raising the spirit to that initial Lost Paradise.

Absența ca strategie metanarativă în romanul Licitația de Mircea Horia Simionescu: deformări și reconfigurări hermeneutice

Author(s): Madalina Stoica / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 59/2021

This paper aims to analyze Mircea Horia Simionescu’s novel, Licitația (The Auction), in order to investigate its metanarrative strategies. The article intends to delve into M. H. Simionescu’s volume and the way it displays the Romanian postmodern paradigm through the means of irony, fragmentation, metalepsis, trans- and intertextuality. The Romanian author switches back and forth between hypo- and hyperdiegesis, unveiling the multi-level structure of his work that allows us to explore its metafictional techniques. An analysis of the metanarrative techniques reveals a threefold structure: the non-linear and fragmentary literary discourse, marked by disintegrated syntax, the ubiquitous condition of the in absentia narrator and, finally, the attempt to recover the stories and histories that create the narrative web or, in other words, the novel’s intertextual strategies.

ACCENTE ANTROPOLOGICE ÎN NUVELELE LUI MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU, REM ȘI MENDEBILUL, DIN PERSPECTIVA JOCULUI

Author(s): Sandra Bianca Bocșa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2021

Known as a theoretician of Romanian Postmodernism, Mircea Cărtărescu is read through a premeditated formula, in an almost guided lecture, the texts being decrypted in postmodern form. Even though it has a lot to offer, the anthropological realm of Cărtărescuʼs texts has not been sufficiently explored. The playful references, which regularly appear in Mircea Cărtărescuʼs prose, are not variations on the narrative, but on the contrary, definitive elements for the sociocultural contour of the texts. Therefore, the following paper investigates the anthropological realm of two short stories included in the volume Nostalgia, Rem and Mendebilul, which revitalise, in a combination between reality and imaginary, a universe of play which is reminiscent of magic rituals, mysticism and accents of anthropology. Quantifying Jean Cuisenier and Andrei Oișteanuʼs anthropological studies, which identify the common elements in the psychology of the child and the psychology of the primitives, the paper follows the two major trajectories from the two of them, with the aim of the children to take elements from the adult world. If in the short story Mendebilul, the organisation and the childrenʼs attitude in play time highlight the idea of taking over through imitation of the behavior models manifested in their immediate reality, put into discussion by Jean Cuisenier, in the short story Rem, the game of the Queens emphasizes the idea of taking over through the degradation of rituals of passing in the adult world, highlighted by Andrei Oișteanu. Both trajectories place great importance on the place and the role of the child in the conservation of culture, childhood games, through the excellence of the cultural actions, being a way to propagate the identity spirit.

Acceptions de l’espace dans le discours diurne/nocturne dans l’œuvre de Mircea Eliade

Author(s): Nicolae Șera / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The present study investigates the manifestations of the sacred and the profane in Mircea Eliade’s work. More precisely it analyses the ways in which space is depicted, focusing on various spatial variants, such as the concepts of house, center, limits, etc., in light of the sacred / profane duality that is specific to Eliade’s work. Mimetism, camouflage and disguise are some features of Eliade’s fantastic literature, as well as the subtle game of simultaneously showing and hiding something. At the level of discourse, these aspects are translated by coding the information so that later it can be decoded partly by the author, partly by the reader.

Acta Marisiensis. Philologia

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

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Activitatea de funcționar îndeplinită de Vasile Alecsandri.

Author(s): Radu Moţoc / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2016

The article reflectes the moments of civil servant and archivist activities fulfilled by Vasile Alecsandri. It is highlighted the reasons why the younger Vasile Alecsandri was promoted to the rank of Spathar (sword-bearer), then the great Spathar (sword bearer).

Activitatea literară a lui D. D. Pătrășcanu

Author(s): Mircea Dinutz / Language(s): Romanian Issue: X/1978

D. D. PATRĂȘCANU (1872-1937) est l'humoriste de la Moldavie, bonhomme, aimable, sentimental, adjonction de quotidien, pour voir dans lui l'anormal, pleurant dans la face du passé et rient de défauts sans avoir, la force de la satire ou la tentation d'abîmes psychologique. Reste à voir dans lui le soutien passionné de la revue "La vie roumaine" par tous les moyens de qu'il disposait ; professeur de vocation, écarté en 1918 d'enseignement, il nourrit cette passion en éditant un important nombre de manuels scolaire. Homme d'action, principiel conséquent, il avait l'inquiétude du fait irréalisé, mais aussi la patience du celui qui croit en finalité. Les livres sont, plutôt, des exercices pour des chefs - d'œuvre futures. "Déjeuner de gala" et "Bloqui sous la neige" serait toujours lui avec plaisir.

ACTIVITATEA LITERARĂ ROMÂNEASCĂ A LUI CONSTANTIN VIRGIL GHEORGHIU: POETUL, PUBLICISTUL, REPORTERUL

Author(s): Mihaela Breban / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2020

What is paradoxical about the personality of Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu is the way in which he was received both in the space of Parisian exile and by literary criticism in the country. He was praised, positively received by literary critics abroad and accused, defamed by his brothers in exile. Some consider him a great Romanian writer, while others argue that he can be labeled a French pseudo-writer. Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu's Romanian literary activity will refer to the writer's dual identity, poet and publicist, as a reporter for the diverse fact and war reporter. The poetic creation is less well known, but through poetry, it manages to penetrate within the framework of the Bucharest bohemian, where it will enjoy the appreciation of the brethren, calling itself "poet of Christ and Romania". He will publish in the magazines of the time, poems collected in the volumes: „The everyday life of the poet”, the plaque „Armand Călinescu”, „Calligraphy on the snow”, „The Prayer Clock”. The publishing activity, carried out over a period of six years, represents a transition from the status of poet to that of writer, but it is justified, in particular, for financial reasons, his choice to publish various facts to several publications of the time, which attracts the disapproval of colleagues, but, contrary to predictions, manages to make a name for himself in the publishing world. The publishing activity is not limited to the account of various facts, but extends to the chronicle of military tribunes, the literary chronicle, writing articles about Romanian and foreign books, magazines, literary beginnings, about literature. The activity of war reporter begins after Romania's entry into the war, when he was sent, in the summer of 1941, as a front-line reporter, to the campaign to liberate Bessarabia, by the Press and Propaganda Section of the General Staff.This activity is reflected in three books of reports: „Burn the banks of the Dniester”, subtitled „The Great War Report in the Disrobed Territories”, with a foreword by T. Arghezi, „I Fought in Crimea”, „With the submarine «Dolphin» at the siege of Sevastopol” prefaced by IonelTeodoreanu, in which he explores the Romanian front on land, air and in the inferno of the sea, books of deep patriotic commitment and great success of public. It is noted, in these reports, the presence of the literary aspect of the document, surprising the disaster of a humanity in a process of degradation, with a strong sentimental load caused by the re-end of dear places, which he had left at the ceding of Bessarabia.

Actualitatea lui Marin Preda

Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-8/2022

De ce este actuală azi opera lui Marin Preda? Care sunt reperele estetice şi etice care ne permit să considerăm creaţia sa importantă, relevantă pentru istoria literaturii române, dar şi pentru timpul în care trăim?

Actualitatea operei ştiinţifice şi a personalităţii prof.dr.doc. I.C. Chiţimia. Studiu statistico-evaluativ realizat pe internet

Author(s): Viorica Prodan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2009

The conclusions of the research study realized between January-March 2008 are: – references – in approximately 400 web sites – regarding the scientific work of I.C. Chitimia are mostly within bibliographies of scientific works, doctoral thesis and articles written by researchers or university teachers whose research themes are, mostly, old Romanian literature. – citation and references that are made from the major writings of the professor are representative for the approached area, mainly for folklore or old Romanian literature, thus I.C. Chitimia’s name and work being the guarantee of cited source. – in Romanian Wikipedia there is no references regarding the life and scientific or teaching activity of professor I.C. Chitimia so that through Internet we cannot obtain complete information regarding the life and activity of professor I.C. Chitimia, but fragmentation and often of low value.

Actualitatea psalmilor lui Tudor Arghezi

Author(s): Anca Sârghie / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 10/2017

For the new generations, Arghezi is clearly surpassed and shadowed by Lucian Blaga, Nichita Stanescu, Ana Blandiana and others. Instead, the psalm, as a literary species through which prayer dresses in the coat of artistic imagery, revitalizes itself. We find the psalm at Dumitru Ichim, at Th. Damian, at Aura Christi. Tudor Arghezi writes psalms to understand his existential purpose. In his writings, the search for the Sacred is identical to that of the meaning of existence, and the answer to his rhetorical questions comes from nature, in a pantheistic vision. Understanding the importance of the psalms that Tudor Arghezi wrote without any intent of establishing an autonomous cycle cannot be achieved without reference to the verses of the Biblical Psalms in the Book of Songs, in the Book of Job, in the Book of Psalms, versified during interwar by Vasile Militaru, and in the contemporary times by St. Aug. Doinaş, Dorel Vişan, Eugen Dorcescu and Şerban Foarţă.

Adaptare și imitație în romanele "No Time Like the Present", de Nadine Gordimer și „Vremea Minunilor", de Cătălin Dorian Florescu

Author(s): Simina Timofte / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

In a series of lectures in 1994, Nadine Gordimer remarks the different status of Africa which is no longer at the edge of the empire, but on the contrary, in the center of it. In this respect, post-apartheid Africa has rebuilt its national identity on the background of global events that write universal history, offering citizens the chance to escape their country's constraints and bring important key elements in the globalization process.Thus, replacing apartheid themes in a new country is an extreme taskby the applicant. Some of the favourite subjects of the "old guard" are the following: the importance of multiculturalism in post-apartheid South Africa, the writer's status, vulgarisation of violence due to mass-media, reconciliation with a violent past and their economic and cultural implications, the fight against AIDS, sexual emancipation, globalization and loss of cultural and national identity, uprooting, migration and economic exile which replaced major pre-existing concerns about violence, racial and gender discrimination, the relationship between literature and politics, or the role of ethics in literature.The same situation can be applied to eastern countries. Even though they were not "postcolonial" in the classical sense of the term, applicable to the former British, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch colonies, the "post-communist transition" through which they passed included the disarmament of a certain political and economic "occupation".People had to adapt to the new order, to the new reality, which was a complex process, a difficult one, that implied, many times, exile.Therefore, the purpose of my argument is to present what consequences can occur at the psychological level because of the attempt of adaptation of the characters to the new social and political order, by imitation, postcolonial and post-communist context. And here comes the question: does imitation facilitate adaptation? Although the logical answer would be yes, we will notice, by discussing the two texts, exactly the opposite.

Addiction to/in Ion Luca Caragiale: Buddies, Chit-Chat, Beer Houses, Coffee Houses

Author(s): Adriana Ghiţoi / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

The following text proposes to demonstrate two things. First, the relationship of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale with the critics over the decades is one of apparent addiction. These critics espouse everything from sublime adulation to unfair disparagement. Secondly, the article explores particular types of characters, the ‘buddies’, whose identitary parameters are close mutual dependence, addiction to conversation and to the place where this happens, the beer or the coffee house. Both hypotheses refute the grim predictions regarding a potential lack of endurance and the charge of having penned works of destructive satire, attacking the Romanian people and their country. Therefore, the first half of my paper will offer a review of literary critiques, while the second half will analyze, through the comparative method, “Amicii”, “Lache şi Mache”, “Amicul X” “Situaţiune”, and “O lacună”, five works of fiction that offer a typology of ‘buddies’. This will hopefully prove that Caragiale was not ‘anti-Romanian’, a ‘rascal’ or ‘laughing with cruelty’, but, on the contrary, was a ‘wise, good and ironic’ observer of human nature.

Adevarul ca interogatie: Leon Volovici

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Author(s): Iulian Boldea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09-10/2016

This essay offers a portrait of the literary historian Leon Volovici and also analyzes Leon Volovici's writings. His books are controlled by the rigor to reveal the intimacy of complex and controversial cultural phenomenas, guided by the obsession of the Truth perceived in its entirety as an invariant of human knowledge, as a basis and evidence of the world, assumed naturally, without logical crises or emotional exacerbations.

Adnotări asupra discursului polemic. Campania generaționistă

Author(s): Cristian Florin Popescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 6/2017

One of the most important debates between the two World Wars was the so-called generational campaign. The new, the young generation against the old generation. It was a new philosophical doctrine against the rationalism and the universalism. In România Mare, the young leaders of this new generation, Mircea Eliade, Petru Comarnescu, Constantin Noica, EmilCioran, Eugen Ionescu et cetera, developed an entire rhetoric of irony against the old generation. A very interesting field of investigation from the point of view of the history of the Romanian press.

Adrian Mureșan - Iubirile preoților

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Author(s): Adrian Mureșan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 8/2008

The essay compares three Romanian short-stories from the point of view of the theme of illicite love.

ADRIAN PĂUNESCU – POSTURAL POLYPHONIES IN THE GOLDEN AGE

Author(s): Angelo Mitchievici / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Adrian Păunescu is the initiator of an unprecedented cultural phenomenon in communist Romania, Cenaclul Flacăra, which, together with poetry, incorporates music and choreography into a show that synthesizes nationalist themes with those of Western pop culture. From the perspective of literary postures and the idea of the author as the sum of social representations and theatricalization of the self as theorized by Jérôme Meizoz, Nathalie Heinlich or Boris Groys, Adrian Păunescu assumes different “roles”; from that of poeta vates to that of court poet, from the entertainer to the educator of a new generation of young people, the bluejeans generation, from the propagandist to the liberator from the yoke of conventions. The present study reviews these roles by analyzing their significance in the context of the age, also called “the Golden Age” in termes of propaganda.

ADRIAN POPESCU, ZMEURA

Author(s): Al. Cistelecan / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 23/2017

Raspberry, by Adrian Popescu is a poem of exemplary symbolic processing. One can immediately sense that there are several methods of composition which the poet stars. First, would be that in each of the four stanzas, the raspberry is explicitly invoked (not only suggested), which means it is about a scale of four conditions, at the end of the fragile fruit sublimates into a purely spiritual reality. It is a monography, thus, which takes us from the concrete immediacy of raspberries to its spiritual efficacy.