The Reception of Virgil Mazilescu´s Work: The Obsessions Of Literary Criticism

Virgil Mazilescu still remains one of the most intriguing Romanian poets. The complexity and the diversity of his poetical work is a challenge for any exegetical analysis; in fact, in many cases, the Romanian critics had suggested the impossibility of fitting Mazilescu’s poetry into the patterns of a certain aesthetic. In this paper, we aim to approach two obsessions of the Romanian critical analysis: on the one hand, the validity of Mazilescu’s poetry belonging to the surrealistic aesthetics, on the other hand, the oral character of his poems, in order to identify a new way of understanding its internal mechanisms. The critical support of this paper consists of chronicles and volumes that discuss Virgil Mazilescu’s literary work.

Keywords: contemporary Romanian poetry, Virgil Mazilescu, poetry, critical analysis, surrealism, orality

Interdisciplinarity – a chance of transfer of the identity construction in Petru Popescu and Jeffrey Eugenides’s novels

Interdisciplinarity, or the study of the interaction beween the diverse areas of academic investigation, became an area of study in itself, its conclusions and methods being constantly analysed and evaluated. This phenomenon has become one of the most significant in today’s society. Literature does not mean solely words on a page, but also its reception and the manner in which it is perceived. The social aspect and, implicitly, the interdisciplinarity between literature and sociology are visible in both authors’ works. In Petru Popescu’s case one can notice a social commitment from a political perspective, a commitment towards freedom of thought and expression. Jeffrey Eugenides’s literature has a social meaning concerning the individual’s freedom of choosing a destiny. He pleads for the acceptance of social segments that some still name „subcategories” or „niche”, whether one refers to sexual orientation or so-called intelectual, ethnical or cultural „outsiders”.

Keywords: Petru Popescu, Jeffry Eugenides, interdisciplinarity, literature, social, identity, novel

Bodiştean, Florica. O Teorie a literaturii. / A Theory of Literature. Iaşi, Institutul European, 2008
De Zepetnek, Steven Tötösy. Comparative Literature. Theory, Method, Application, Amsterdam – Atlanta, GA, , Editions Rodopi B.V., 1998.
Hutcheon, Linda. Historiographic Metafiction. Parody and Intertextuality of History. Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. P. O’Donnell and Robert Con Davis. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989. 3-32
Klein, Julie Thompson, and William H. Newell. “Advancing Interdisciplinary Studies”, in J.G. Graff, J.L. Ratcliff, Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to Purposes, Structures, Practices, and Change, San Francisco, Jossey-Brass, 1997.
Klein, Julie Thompson. Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory and Practice, Wayne State University Press, 1990.
Lukacs, Georg. Die Theorie des Romans. / The Theory of the Novel. Editura DTV, 2000
Marino, Adrian. Biografia Ideii de literatură. Volumul 3. / Biography of the Idea of Literature. Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1994
Preves, Sharon. Intersex and Identity. Rutgers University Press, 2003Schmidt 2007: Jan C. Schmidt, “Towards a Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity”, in Poiesis and Praxis 5 (1): 53-69
Ursa, Mihaela. Identitate şi excentritate. Comparatismul românesc între specific local şi globalizare. / Identity and excentricity, The Romanian Comparatism between local and globalization. Editura Muzeului Naţional al Literaturii Române, 2013

Roberto Bolaño – „2666” and the theory of minority

This study examines Roberto Bolaño’s strategies of redeploying marginality in literary discourse, with particular focus on his novel entitled 2666. Bolaño borrows the aesthetics of the peripheral, the poetics of the insignificant, or the themes of vagrancy and Bohemian rootlessness from various famous authors, but, at the same time, these elements are delivered in an unrivaled personal style that problematizes aspects pertaining to literary theory and the theory of the novel. An anarchetypal novel (with an atomized structure, much like the dispersed pieces of a puzzle), 2666 breaks many authorial and stylistic patterns and disregards the conventional rules of narrative architecture, becoming a significant milestone in today’s novelistic world.

Keywords: Roberto Bolaño 2666, marginality, poetics of nothingness, theory of the novel, anarchaetype

Roberto Bolaño, Detectivii sălbatici / The Savage Detectives, traducere de Dan Muntean Colan, Editura Corint, 2013
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, vol. 1-3, traducere de Eugenia Alexe Munteanu, București, Editura Univers, 2016
Corin Braga, De la arhetip la anarhetip / From Archaetype to Anarchaetype, Iași, Editura Polirom, 2006
Ruxandra Cesereanu, „Hoarda Poeților: Fiii lui Caliban” / „Poets´ Horde: The Suns of Caliban”, Steaua, 7-8, 2014, pp. 35-36
Sharae Deckard, „Peripheral Realism, Millenial Capitalism and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666”, Modern Language Quarterly, 73.3, 2012, pp. 351-372
Grant Farred, „The Impossible Closing: Death, Neoliberalism and the Postcolonial in Bolaño’s 2666”, Modern Ficton Studies, 56.4, Winter 2010, pp. 689708
Daniuska González, La escritura barbara: la narrativa de Roberto Bolaño, Lima, Fondo Editorial Cultura Peruana, 2010
Ignacio López-Calvo (ed.), Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star. Critical Essays, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Angeles Donoso Macaya, „Estética, política y el possible territorio de la ficción en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño”, Revista Hispánica Moderna, 62.2, 2009, pp. 125-142
Daniel Zalewski, „Vagabonds. Roberto Bolaño and His Fractured Masterpieces”, The New Yorker, March 26, 2007

Fictionalization of the self reflected in “Other Colors” – Orhan Pamuk

The autobiographical genre allows the recounting of past experiences through a series of expressive “lens”,in other words, through the means of fiction. The aim of this article is to decode in “Other Colours” (1999), a volume of essays written by one of the most appreciated contemporary authors, Orhan Pamuk, the narrative identity that emerges by a fictionalization of the self. The autobiographical essay highlights certain significant views of the author, without displaying them entirely. The authenticity of the commented events isn’t as important as the meaning revealed through the process of debating and speculating that organizes the discourse. A questioning of the self related to a type of personal history, inevitably linked to the greater history, is placed in a narrative frame that successfully manages to transform a personal reflection in a universal matter.

Keywords: contemporary Turkish literature, Orhan Pamuk, self, fictionalization, narrative identity, alterity

Cioran, Emil. Carnete / Notebooks, București, Humanitas, 2016
Gusdorf, George. Auto-bio-graphie / Auto-bio-graphy, Paris, Odile Jacob, 1991
Hubier, Sébastien. Littératurres intimes. Les expressions du moi, de l’autobiographie, à l’autofiction / Private litteratures. Expressions of the self, from autobiography to autofiction, Paris, Armand Collin, 2005
Pamuk, Orhan. Other Colors ‒ Essays and a Story, New York, Alfred A.Knopf, 2007
Ricoeur, Paul. Soi-même comme un autre / Oneself as Another, Paris, Seuil, 1990
Riendeau, Pascal. La rencontre du savoir et du soi dans l’essai / The confluence of knowledge and self in the essay. În Études littéraires, vol. 37, n° 1, 2005, articol disponibil la adresa de web: http://id.erudit.org/ iderudit/012827ar
Simion, Eugen. Genurile biograficului vol. 1 / The biographical genres, volume 1, București, Univers enciclopedic, 2002

The strategy of (auto)irony through the writings of Fouad Laroui

The literature of Fouad Laroui is surprisingly lucid and sympathetic with a worldwide audience. Using irony as an instrument of rhetoric, the Moroccan writer provides not only a contemporary topic, but also new perspectives on the same subjects: society, culture, love, (trans)national barriers etc. This article tries to present the originality of the mechanism of irony in the literature of Laroui, according to Vladmir Jankélévitch’s theory.

Keywords: contemporary Moroccan literature, the rhetoric of discourse, irony, Fouad Laroui

Benard, Valérie. Le roman algérien de langue française : à propos de l’ironie / The Algerian Novel of French Language in Terms of Irony, in Itinéraires & contacts de cultures. Nouvelles approches des textes littéraires maghrébins ou migrants, vol. 27, 1er semestre 1999, Université de Paris 13, L’Harmattan, pp. 137-146.
Clément, Murielle Lucie. «Nous» et «eux» ou l’image de l’islam chez Fouad Laroui / “We” and “Them” of the Image of the Islam at Fouad Laroui, in REDOUANE, Najib (sous la direction de). Les écrivains maghrébins francophones et l’islam. Constance dans la diversité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2013, p. 321-331.
Hamon, Philippe. L’ironie littéraire. Essai sur les formes de l’écriture oblique / Literary Irony. Essay on the Forms of Oblique Literature, Paris, Hachette supérieur, 1996.
Jankélévitch, Vladimir. L’ironie / Irony, Paris, Librairie Félix Alcan, 1936.
Jérusalem, Christine. Terre, terrain, territoire. Variations historiques et géographiques dans les romans contemporains / lCountry, Land, Territory. Historical and Geographical Variations in Contemporary Novels, in Le roman français contemporain, Éditions Cultures France, 2007.
Laroui, Fouad. Les noces fabuleuses du Polonais / The Fabulous Weddings of the Polish, Paris, Julliard, 2015.
Laroui, Fouad. Le Maboul, Paris, Julliard, 2001.
Laroui, Fouad. De quel amour blessé / Of What Hurt Love, Paris, Julliard, 1998.
Laroui, Fouad. Les dents du topographe / The Teeth of the Topographist, Paris, Julliard, 1996.
Mercier-Leca, Florence. L’ironie / Irony, Paris, Hachette, 2003.
Molinié, Georges. Dictionnaire de rhétorique / Dictionary of Rhetorics, Paris, Le livre de poche, 1992.
Sternberg, Véronique. Le comique / The Comic, Paris, GF Flammarion, 2003. –

Mutations of Eminescu’s Cosmogony in a Genetic Literature of `Satyre I`’s Versions. Hindu Philosophy and Vedda Influences in Mihai Eminescu’s Visionarism

By means of applying a process of genetic criticism, the following paper aims to analyse the cosmogonical transformations that supervene in the workshop of M. Eminescu’s Satyre I, from the first drafts of the poem to its final form. At the same time, the study intends to use this process in order to demonstrate the existence of Hindu spiritual influence and Vedic philosophy in Eminescu’s poetic visionarism that stems from a German philosophical interference via cultural ricoché through the well-known affinity of the Romanian romantic poet for Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The study will attempt to scrutinize the influence of Vedic philosophy absorbed through the study of Schopenhauer’s works by analysing elements of semantic, syntactic and symbolic examination of Satyre I’s avant-text that shift throughout the elaboration of the poem.

Keywords: cosmogony, Hindu spirituality, Vedic philosophy, neo-Vedism, visionarism, genetic criticism

Bhose, Amita, Eminescu și India / Eminescu and India, Cununi de stele, București, 2011.
Bot, Ioana, Columban, Monica, Mihai Eminescu. Scrisori: exerciții de lectură / Mihai Eminescu. Letters: Reading Exercises, Casa cărții de știință, Cluj-Napoca, 2004. del Conte, Rosa, Eminescu sau despre absolut / Eminescu or About the Absolute, Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 2003.
Eminescu, Mihai, Opere / Works, Vol 1 & 2, Ediție critică îngrijită de Perpessicius, Fundația Regele Carol II, București, 1939 – 1943.
Eminescu, Mihai, Versuri din Manuscrise / Lines from the Manuscripts, ediție de Ioana Both și Cătălin Cioabă, Humanitas, București, 2015.
Gregori, Ilina, Știm noi cine a fost Eminescu ? / Do We Know Who Eminescu Was?, Art, București, 2008.
Guillermou, Alain, Geneza interioară a poeziilor lui Mihai Eminescu / The Inner Genesis of Mihai Eminescu’s Poems, Junimea, Iași, 1977.
Petrescu, Ioana, Eminescu: modele cosmologice și viziune poetică / Eminescu: Cosmological Models and Poetic Vision, Paralela 45, Pitești, București, 2005.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, Lumea ca ființă și reprezentare / The World as Being and Representation, Humanitas, București, 2012.

„Generation Post-2000”. A Promotion

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the ways in which contemporary Romanian poetry has underwent a change in the last decade, signaling not only a mutation in the literary field, but also a shift in social values. The main characteristics of ‚Generation 2000’ are being put into question by the emergence of a new promotion of poets. Within this paper, the two different poetic sensibilities are mirrored to show the mechanism of evolution within the Romanian literary canon and to exactly pinpoint its motives.

Keywords: contemporary Romanian literature, ‘Generation 2000’, ‘Generation Post-2000’, posthumanism, technology, New Sincerity

Bibliografie primară:

Baghiu, Ștefan, Spre sud, la Lăceni, Editura Cartea Românească, București, 2013.
Chiriță, Valentina, umilirea animalelor, Casa de pariuri literare, București, 2010.
Drăgoi, Vlad, Metode, Casa de editură Max Blecher, București, 2013.
Drăgoi, Vlad, Eschiva, Editura Cartea Românească, București, 2015.
Drăgoi, Vlad, sergio leone, Editura Charmides, Bistrița, 2017.
Eftimie, Gabriela, ochi roșii polaroid. acesta este un test, Editura Vinea, București, 2006.
Mîndroiu, Robert, Dmitri: genul cinic, Editura Cartea Românească, București, 2015.
Văsieș, Alexandru, Instalația, Editura Cartea Românească, București, 2016.

Bibliografie critică:

Ciorogar, Alexandru, Neo-Biedermeier, în „Vatra”, nr. 9-10/2016.
Cistelecan, Al., Cinicul sentimental / The Sentimental Cynic, în „România Literară“, nr. 11/2010.
Goldiș, Alex, Două pariuri câștigătoare: val chimic și Bogdan Lipcanu / Two Winning Bets: val chimic and Bogdan Lipcanu, în „Cultura”, nr. 311/2011.
Iovănel, Mihai, Ideologiile literaturii în postcomunismul românesc / The Ideologies of Literature in Romanian Post-Communism, Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, București, 2017.
Modoc, Emanuel, Romanian Splendor, în „Vatra”, nr. 5/2016. Wallace, David Foster, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction , în „Review of Contemporary Fiction”, 22 Iunie 1993.

Emilian Galaicu-Păun – Poetic Intertextuality between Natural and Bookish

The Moldavian/Bessarabian “generation 80” emerged under different historical and political conditions as compared with the Romanian one; nevertheless, it shares some characteristics similar to the Romanian model in what regards the sociolinguistic, imagological, rhetorical aspects. It did not appear as a declared opposition to a particular generation, but was born out of a normal reaction to recovery after a prolonged cultural convalescence and, of course, to synchronization by transfer with new experiences and experiments from Romanian and Western culture and literature. This “intersection” between the two axes of the generations 80 (the Romanian and the Moldavian ones) is illustrated by the intertextual poetry of Emilian Galaicu-Păun, displaying an interesting disclosure of the intertextualization process, the creation of the poem as a scriptural agent, by drawing the relative effects of the distances between the performer and performance.

Keywords: Emilian Galaicu-Păun, Moldavian/Bessarabian literature, generation 80, postmodernism, imaginary

Antologii și volume autor

Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Lumina proprie, Literatură Artistică, Chișinău, 1986.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Abece-Dor, Literatură Artistică, Chișinău, 1989.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Levitații deasupra hăului, Hyperion, Chișinău, 1991.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Cel bătut îl duce pe Cel nebătut, Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1994.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Yin Time (neantologie), Litera, 2004. Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, a-z.best, Editura Arc, Chișinău, 2012.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Arme grăitoare, Editura Cartier, Chișinău, 2015.
Leahu, Nicolae, Poezie (Colecție de antologii,Literatura din Basarabia în secolul XX), Editura ARC, Chișinău, 2004.
Lungu, Eugen (coord.), Portret de grup. O altă imagine a poeziei basarabene. Antologie a poeziei generației optzeci. Selecție (în colaborare) și studiu introductive, Editura Arc, Chișinău, 1995;
reed. Portret de grup. După 20 de ani. Antologie. Selecție și studiu introductive, Editura Cartier, Chișinău, 2015.

Referințe critice generale (selectiv):

Călinescu, Matei Cinci fețe ale modernității / Five Faces of Modernity, (1977), Editura Univers, București, 1985, (trad.), Ediția I; Ediția II revăzută și adăugită, Editura Polirom, Iași, 2005.
Cărtărescu, Mircea, Postmodernismul românesc / Romanian Postmodernism, Editura Humanitas, București, 1999.
Cârstea, Cristina, Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Literatura însăși e o singurătate activă / Literature itself is an active solitude, în Basarabia, 1999, nr. 7-12. Chiper, Grigore, Poezia optzecistă basarabeană / Moldavian Literature of the Generation 80, Iași, 2013, Editura Tipo Moldova.
Cimpoi, Mihai, O istorie deschisă a literaturii române din Basarabia / An Open History of the Romanian Literature in Moldova, Editura Arc, 1996.
Ciobanu, Mircea V., Universul spart al poeziei lui Emilian Galaicu-Păun / The Broken Universe of Emilian Galaicu-Păun’s Poetry, în Revista „Semn”, nr. 2, 1995, Diaconu, Mircea A., Biblioteca de poezie postbelică. Experiențe & existențe poetice / The Postwar Poetry Library. Experiences and Poetic Existences, Editura Universității Suceava, 2016. Dorian, Gellu, Pomelnicele lui Emilian Galaicu-Păun / Emilian Galaicu-Păun’s Memorial Lists, Evenimentul, 9 ianuarie, 1992.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Autodescrierea II / Self-Description II, Semn, nr. 3-4, 1998.
Galaicu-Păun, Emilian, Capcoadă / Headtotoes. În Contrafort, 1999, nr. 6-9. Leahu, Nicolae, Poezia generației 80, / Poetry of the Generation 80 Editura Cartier, Chișinău, 2015.
Manolache, Gheorghe, Regula lui doi / The Rule of Two, Editura Universității „Lucian Blaga”, Sibiu, 2004.
Manolescu, Nicolae, Literatura română postbelică – Lista lui Manolescu, I Poezia / Postwar Romanian Literature. Manolescu’s List. I. Poetry, Editura Aula, Brașov, (f.a.). Mincu, Marin, O panoramă critică a poeziei românești din secolul al XX-lea / A Critical Panorama of 20th Century Romanian Literature, Editura Pontica, Constanţa, 2007.
Mușina, Al., Poezia de după poezie-(ultimul deceniu) / Poetry After Poetry (The Last Decade), Editura Cartier, 1999.
Mușina, Al., Poezia: teze, ipoteze, explorări / Poetry: Theses, Antitheses, Explorations, Editura Aula, Brașov, 2008.
Parpală Afană, Emilia, Postmodernismul poetic românesc, / Romanian Poetic Postmodernism Editura Universitaria, Craiova, 2011.
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Simuț, Ion, Simptomele actualității literare / Symptoms of Literary Actuality, Biblioteca Revista Familia, Oradea, 2007.
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The Aesthetics of Absence in Iustin Panța´s Poetry

The present study argues that the universe in Iustin Panța’s poetry is compounded of objects which many times simulate the human behavior. The simple things are actually deployed for reminding the subject of the loved human being who is lost to him and have an empty form without content. The technique was developed by Mallarmé and it consists of voiding the objects of their signifier. The same method is used by Iustin Panța; the difference is that while Mallarmé employs it for musical pusposes, the Romanian poet uses it to evade into the past, where the memories represent a safehold. Therefore, the absence inserts itself in the discourse, becoming this way a poetic technique which gathers around it the elements of the poetic universe.

Keywords: contemporary Romanian, poetry, absence, Iustin Panța, signifier, signified.

Opere primare:

Obiecte mișcate / Moved Objects, Antologie I, Editura Vinea, București, 2003;

Obiecte mișcate / Moved Objects, Antologie II, Editura Vinea, București, 2003;

Intențiile tăcerii / The Silence Intentions, Editura Charmides, Bistrița, 2012;

Bibliografie critică

Bachelard, Gaston, Poetica reveriei / The Poetics of Reverie, Editura Paralela 45, Pitești, 2005;

Blanchot, Maurice, Spațiul literar / The Space of Literature, Editura Minerva, București, 2007;

Bloom, Harold, Anxietatea influenței: o teorie a poeziei / The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, Editura Paralela 45, Pitești, 2008;

Burgos, Jean, Pentru o poetică a imaginarului / Towards a Poetics of the Imaginary, Editura Univers, București, 1988;

Călinescu, Matei, A citi, a reciti / Rereading, Iași, Polirom, 2003;

Călinescu, Matei, Conceptul modern de poezie / The Modern Concept of Poetry, Editura Paralela 45, Pitești, 2009;

Deleuze, Gilles, Diferență și repetiție / Difference and Repetition, Editura Babel, București, 1995;

Derrida, Jacques, Scriitura și diferența / Writing and Difference, Editura Univers, București, 1998;

Durand, Gilbert, Structurile antropologice ale imaginarului / The Anthropological Structures of the Imaginary, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, București, 1998;

Eagleton, Terry, Teoria literară. O introducere / Literary Theory. An Introduction, Editura Polirom, Iași, 2008;

Eco, Umberto, La struttura assente: La ricerca semiotica e il metodo strutturale / The Absent Structure: The Semiotics Research and the Structural Method, Editura Bompiani, Milano, 2015;

Eco, Umberto, Opera deschisă / The Open Work, Editura Paralela 45, Pitești, 2002;

Eliot, T. S., Eseuri alese: critica literară / Selected Essays: Literary Criticism, Editura Humanitas fiction, București, 2013;

Friedrich, Hugo, Structura liricii moderne / The Structure of Modern Poetry, Editura Pentru literatură universală, București, 1969;

Hegel, G.W.F., Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline. Part 1: Science of Logic, Editura Cambridge University Press, 2010;

Hegel, G.W.F., Fenomenologia spiritului / Phenomenology of Spirit, Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold, București, 2010;

Jameson, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Editura Duke University Press, Durham NC., 1991;

Juvan, Marko, History and Poetics of Intertextuality, Editura Purdue University Press, USA, 2008;

Manolescu, Nicolae, Despre poezie / On Poetry, Editura Aula, Brașov, 2002;

Marino, Adrian, Introducere în critica literară / Introduction into Literary Criticism, Editura Aius, Craiova, 1968;

Mușina, Alexandru, Paradigma poeziei moderne / The Paradigm of Modern Poetry, Editura Aula, Brașov, 2004;

Mușina, Alexandru, Poezia: teze, ipoteze, explorări / Poetry: theses, hypotheses, investigations, Editura Aula, Brașov, 2008;

Nicolau, Felix, Estetica inumană. De la postmodernism la Facebook / The Aesthetics of the Inhuman. From Postmodernism to Facebook, Editura Tracus Arte, București, 2013;

Patapievici, Horia-Roman, Partea nevăzută decide totul / The Unseen Part Decides Everything, Editura Humanitas, București, 2015;

Raymond, Marcel, De la Baudelaire la suprarealism / From Baudelaire to Surrealism, Editura Univers, București, 1998;

Steiner, George, Language and Silence. Essays on Language, Literature and the Inhuman, Editura Atheneum, New York, 1986;

Vattimo, Gianni, Dincolo de subiect. Nietzsche, Heidegger și hermeneutica / Beyond the Subject. Nietzsche, Heidegger and Hermeneutics, Editura Pontica, Constanța, 1994;

Vasile Lovinescu. The hermeneutics of Creangă’s folk tales

In an exercice of myth analysis, starting from the Guénonian premise of the non-human origin of the folklore, Vasile Lovinescu stops at the tales written by Ion Creangă, considered a genius story-teller, a witness of the Tradition. The myth analysis in Creangă’s tales, the esoteric interpretation of the fundamental ballads of the Romanian spirituality, the remarkable analysis of the carols, all are integrated in defining a national mythology, in a hermeneutics with a great intelectual force. ‘Creangă și Creanga de aur’ and ‘Interpretarea ezoterică a unor basme și balade populare românești’ are the two fundamental works of analysis of the Romanian folk tradition. Vasile Lovinescu opens up two polemic lines inside his studies dedicated to the Romanian folk tales and ballads: one, with the official, academic school of folk study, and the other, much more poignant, with the direction of the modern national history, in rem, rather than in personam.

Keywords: myth, esoteric, myth analysis, folk tale, Ion Creangă, Harap Albs

Cristian, Roxana, Agartha fălticeneană / The Fălticeni Agartha, Editura Rosmarin, 2012

Liiceanu, Gabriel, Utopia intelectului și utopia filozofiei / The Utopia of the Intellect and the Utopia of Philosophy, Editura Dialog, București

Lovinescu, Vasile, Creangă și Creanga de Aur / Creangă and the Golden Branch, Editura Cartea Românească, București, 1989

Lovinescu, Vasile, Steaua fără nume / The Star Without Name, Editura Rosmarin, București, 1994

Ioan Petru Culianu’s Conception on Literature

The present study is focused on excavating (from interviews, fictional literature,  diary pages etc.) a coherent conception of Ioan Petru Culianu’s on literature. The historian of religions understood literature as myth (a secular and non-ritual  myth, nevertheless a proper one) – therefore, literature is for him not simply a passtime, but the crux and culmination  of his scientific studies. His literary method thus also serves as camouflage of his scientific method, always working in codependence  with it.

Keywords:  history  of religions,  Entzauberung  der Welt, Ioan Petru Culianu, literary method as scientific method