The Image of the Transsylvanian Village in Rolf Bauerdick’s Novel „Wie die Madonna auf den Mond kam“

Rolf Bauerdick is a German journalist, who published especially photo reportages about the Roma from Eastern Europe. He travelled more than 100 times to Bulgaria, Albania, Romania and other countries. His journalistic work led to very controversial opinions whereas his first novel „Wie die Madonna auf den Mond kam“ (2009) proved from the beginning to be a bestseller. The image of the fictional transsylvanian village Baia Luna has even been compared to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ famous Macondo in „One Hundred Years of Solitude“. Bauerdick’s novel offers a complex view on the life of romanians, germans, Roma people living together in a small village up in the mountains, a view that includes personal dramas, political events, but also daily life for over 50 years, beginning with the period between the World Wars and ending with the last years of the 20th century.

Keywords: Bauerdick, photo reportages about the Roma, controversial opinions, first novel, bestseller, fictional transsylvanian village Baia Luna, complex view, ending with the last years of the 20th century.

Primärliteratur:

• Bauerdick, Rolf: Wie die Madonna auf den Mond kam. München 2009.

Sekundärliteratur/Internetquellen

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• Schneider, Rolf: Misslungene Annäherung. Rezension von Rolf Bauerdicks ‚Zigeuner – Begegnung mit einem ungeliebten Volk’. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur vom 2.06.2013. http://www.deutschlandradiokultur. de/misslungene-annaeherung.1270. de.html?dram:article_id=24 (Zugriff 10.06.2016)
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Pyramids are not built like myths. Mihai Pop and the reinvention of Folklore Studies

The paper assesses the intellectual profile of Romanian ethnologist Mihai Pop, from the doublefold perspective of theoretical thinking and institutional work in his field. Lettered in Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism during the inter-war period, Mihai Pop managed to accomplish his formation in a remarkable structuralist-semiotic setting in postwar Romania, in a theoretical stance which remained singular in Romanian research during communism and acquired a well-deserved international recognition. Among others, this stance enabled Mihai Pop to rebuild the domain of Romanian Folklore studies, after the 1948 education reform, and safeguard the field against ideologization, which was about to return in full force after 1971 and after his 1975 retirement .

Key words: structuralism, ethnology, sociology, anthropology, folk literature

• Bîrlea, Ovidiu, Istoria folcloristicii românești [History of Romanian Folklore Studies], București, Editura Enciclopedică Română
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• Constantin Petre, „Etnologia românească – origini și evoluții. De la vârsta romantică la perioada comunistă” [„ Romanian Ethnology – Origins and Evolutions. From the Romantic to the Communist Age], Ianus, 7-8, 2003
• Mihai Pop, „Arhiva de folclor … la șura de fân” [„The Folklore Archive … in the haymow”], în Zoltán Rostás, Sala luminoasă. Primii monografiști ai școlii gustiene [The Light Room. Gusti School’s First Monographists], Paideia
• Mihai Pop, Pavel Ruxăndoiu, Folclor literar românesc [Romanian Literary Folklore], București, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 1976
• Pop, Mihai, Folclor românesc. I. Teorie și metodă [Romanian Folklore. I. Theory and Method], ediție îngrijită de N. Constantinescu și Al. Dobre, București, Ed. Grai și Suflet – Cultura Națională, 1998
• Șerban Văetiși, Noile teorii etnografice și conceptul de descriere a culturii [The New Ethnographic Theories and the Concept of Culture Description], Editura Fundației pentru Studii Europene, Cluj-Napoca
• Rodica Zane, „Profesorul Mihai Pop – de la teorie la obicei” [„Professor Mihai Pop – from theory to custom”], Cercetări Etnologice Românești Contemporane, vol. I, nr. 1, 2005, pp. 36-39.

The Midsummer Night. The Inhabitation of the Sacred in the Recuperator Hermeneutics

The hermeneutical reading of the novel Noaptea de Sânziene (translated as The Forbidden Forest) emphasizes the survival of the sacred in the spiritual adventure of its characters, in a series of initiation scenarios, and also identifies a style, a poetics, a set of rules and rhetorical procedures in order to isolate -within the discursive ”body” – the space of a sacred memory, the space of a spiritual journey.

Key words: mythical discourse, anagogic scenarios, poetic, sacred, profane.

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Franco Moretti – about literary survival. Analysis and research

This article focuses on the study of literary evolution by using an innovative method created by the Italian professor Franco Moretti. His analysis regarding literature and the way it has been seen until now reveals the central concepts in his studies: distant reading and quantitative research. He wanted to develop an evolutionary theory in literature, so his works deal with nonconformist ways of looking and studying literature from its beginnings up to the present. This revolutionary view is totally different from the old historical paradigm. Literary survival is a concept associated with the biological evolution and Charles Darwin`s theories.

Keywords: Franco Moretti, distant reading; literary survival; graphs; trees; branches; evolution; competition in literature; the great unread;

Goodwin, Jonathan and John Holbo, Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees, critical responses to Franco Moretti, South Carolina, Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, 2011.
Moretti, F., Grafice, hărți, arbori: literatura văzută de departe, trad. de Cristian Cercel, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Tact, 2016.
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Piazza, A., Evoluția văzută de aproape, în volumul Grafice, hărți, arbori: literatura văzută de departe, trad. de Cristian Cercel, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Tact, 2016.
Terian, A., prefața volumului Grafice, hărți, arbori: literatura văzută de departe, trad. de Cristian Cercel, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Tact, 2016.

The Bohemian Figure in Pierre Bourdieu’s Work: the Modern Literary Field

This article tries to expose the way in which Pierre Bourdieu’s view on 19th century bohemian literature can serve as an argument for analyzing literature as an autonomous field. His concepts of autonomy, field and bohemia well describe the artistic scene at the beginnings of modernity and explain the way in which art has gained its capability to serve its own porpoise by swerving away from dominant institutions (political and economical). For Pierre Bourdieu, the autonomy of the literary field can be seen, from a marxist, sociological and also poststructuralist point of view, as the key moment in the development of modernism as fight against bourgeoisie and aristocracy. But also, this article debates the thesis of Peter Burger or Norbert Elias in order to understand the constant return of the alternative in the midst of the bourgeoisie.

His studies framed in „The Rules of Art. Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field” can be compared to the ones of Nathalie Heinich or Judith Halasz in order to understand the effects and the underground work of the alternative in art in general.

Keywords: Pierre Bourdieu, bohemia, autonomy, literary field, literary salons, bourgeosy, literary institutions

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Heinich, Nathalie: L’élite artiste. Excellence et singularité en régime démocratique, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
Moretti, Franco: The Bourgeois – Between History and Literature, London-New York, Verso, 2013.

The (In)Actuality of Lucian Blaga’s Theory of Influences

The present study aims at re-analyzing and restating the theoretical legitimacy and the practical applicability in comparative literature of the two types of influences: the modelling and the catalytic ones, such as they are defined and presented by Lucian Blaga in the Trilogy of Culture, as well as the actuality and contemporaneousness of this theory with respect to the contemporary Romanian literature/culture and the Weltliteratur / World literature.

Keywords: modern Romanian literature, Lucian Blaga, theory of cultural influences, model, imitation, synchronism, catalyst

Lucian Blaga, Trilogia culturii / The Trilogy of Culture, în Opere, vol. 9, Ed. Minerva, 1985
Harold Bloom, Anxietatea influenţei / The Anxiety of Influence, Ed. Paralela 45, 2008
Pierre Brunel, Claude Pichois et André-Michel Rousseau, Qu’est-ce que la littérature comparée / What Is Comparative Literature, Ed. Armand Colin, 2000 (deuxième édition)
Mircea Cărtărescu, Postmodernismul românesc / Romanian Postmodernism, Ed. Humanitas, 1999
Al. Dima, Principii de literatură comparată / Principles of Comparative Literature, Ed. Enciclopedică Română, 1972
Eugen Lovinescu, Istoria civilizaţiei române moderne / History of Modern Romanian Civilization, Ed. Știinţifică, 1972
Claude Pichois et André-Michel Rousseau, Littérature comparée / Comparative Literature, Ed. Armand Colin, 1967
G. Tarde, Les lois de l’imitation / The Laws of Imitation, Librairie F. Alcan, 1890
René Wellek, Criza literaturii comparate / The Crisis of Comparative Literature, în Conceptele criticii, Ed. Univers, 1970

The Prose of the Generation 2000. The Detabooization of the Homosexual Couple

The following paper aims to investigate the manner in which the problem of homosexuality is represented in Romanian contemporary literature once with the 2000 Generation. Homosexuality was considered a crime in the Romanian Penal Code until 2001, but right after the homosexuality punishment was abolished, the gay character started to be approached explicitly in Romanian literature. Therefore, the bet of this article is to analyze the homosexual character, starting from Dora Pavel’s novel Do not cross, Adrian Schiop’s Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari and Adrian Teleșpan’s Cimitirul. Before being gay, the heroes of these novels are already living a peripheral existence since they are presented as outcasts of their communities.

Keywords: homosexuality, 2000 Generation, sexual identity, queer literature, taboo subject

Baudrillard, Jean, Strategiile fatale/ Fatal strategies, Polirom, Iași, 1996.
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble, Routledge, New York, 1990.
Duda, Virgil, Șase femei/Six women, Albatros, București, 2002.
Iovănel, Mihai, Evreul improbabil, Mihail Sebastian: o monografie ideologică/ The improbable Jew. Mihail Sebastian: An Idological Monograph, Cartea Românească, București, 2012.
Iovănel, Mihai, Ideologiile literaturii în postcomunismul românesc/ The ideologies of literature in Romanian Postcomunism, Muzeul Literaturii Române, București, 2017.
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Pavel, Dora, Do not cross, Polirom, Iași, 2013.
Petraș, Irina, Literatură română contemporană – o panoramă/ Contemporary Romanian Literature. A panorama, Ideea Europeană, București, 2008.
Schiop, Adrian, Soldații. Poveste din Ferentari/ The crew. A story from Fetentari, Ed. Polirom, Iași, 2013.
Soviany, Octavian, Apocaliptica textului (încercare asupra textualismului românesc)/ Apocalypse of the Text (A try at the Romanian Textualism), Palimpsest, București, 2008.
Teleșpan, Adrian, Cimitirul/ The Cemetery, Herg Benet Publishing, București, 2013.

Romanian Poetry of the 2000s. The Setting for a Change in Paradigm

The main subject of this paper represents the study of Romanian poetry after the year 2000. The goal of the paper is determining a set of characteristics specific to the poets of this period and the discovery of a breaking point in the close literary past, that signals a mutation in the literary paradigm and the emergence of a new poetic sensibility. The research tries to pinpoint the conditions of the conflict between the so-called Generation 2000 and the literary figures of the 1980s, as well as the two general directions that have evolved within in, with their set of specific characteristics. Lastly, the future of their aesthetics are being called into question.

Keywords: contemporany Romanian literature, generation 2000, authenticism, neo-Expressionism.

Benga, Grațiela, Rețeaua. Poezia românească a anilor 2000 / The network. Romanian poetry after the year 2000, Editura Universității de Vest, Timișoara, 2016.
Crăciun, Gheorghe, Aisbergul poeziei moderne / The iceberg of modern poetry, ediția a 2-a, Editura Paralela 45, Pitești, 2009.
Cristea-Enache, Daniel, Literatura de azi. Di@loguri pe net / Literature of today. Di@logues on the web, Editura Polirom, București, 2013.
Cristea-Enache, Daniel, Timpuri noi / New times, Editura Cartea Românească, București, 2009.
Ianuș, Marius, Manifestul fracturist / The fracturist manifesto, reprodus în suplimentul de marți al ziarului „Observator de Constanța”, Nr. 85-86, 5 iunie 2001.
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Mincu, Ștefania, Douămiismul poetic românesc. despre starea poeziei II/ Generation 2000 în poetry. On the state of poetry II, Editura Pontica, Constanța, 2007.
Soviany, Octavian, Cinci decenii de experimentalism, vol. al II-lea, Poezia epocii postcomuniste/ Five decades of experimentalism, volume 2, Poetry in the postcommunist epoch, Casa de Pariuri Literare, București, 2011.
Urmanov, Adrian, Eu sunt poemul utilitar/ I am the utilitarian poem, în revista „Paradigma”, nr. 1-2/2003.

Onomastics in the novels of Ștefan Agopian

The present study focuses on the proper names of the characters of Ștefan Agopian’s novels, namely The Day of Wrath (Ziua mâniei) and Velvet Tache (Tache de catifea), those in which this seemingly secondary aspect of the text proves to be significant. An atheist and calophile writer, originally attributable to the 80s generation, at least temporally, Stefan Agopian remains particular in the field of the characters’ names, in part due to the similarity of the novels, which place the action in more or less revolt eras. The poetics reflected also in the proper names is one of, as it has been said, magical realism and, in any case, of a highly formal form of prose with a mannerist stylistic, a contorted and precious discourse not to be encountered by other authors of the postwar.

Keywords: contemporary Romanian literature, Ștefan Agopian, proper names, magical realism, kalophylia, characters, simili-historic novel.

Ioan Holban, Profiluri epice contemporane / Contemporary Narrative Profiles, Ed. Cartea Românească, București, 1987
Ruxandra Ivăncescu, Ștefan Agopian. Monografie, Ed. Aula, Brașov, 2000
Nicolae Manolescu, Istoria critică a literaturii române / The Critical History of Romanian Literature, Ed. Paralela 45, Pitești, 2008
Monica Spiridon, Melancolia descendenţei / The Melancholy of Descendence, Ed. Cartea Românească, București, 1989
Radu G. Ţeposu, Istoria tragică & grotescă a întunecatului deceniu literar nouă / The Grotesque & Tragic History of the Dark Literary Nineth Decade, Ed. Eminescu, București, 1993
Mihaela Ursa, Optzecismul și promisiunile postmodernismului / The Generation 80 and the Promises of Postmodernism, Ed. Paralela 45, Pitești, 1999

Traian Demetrescu – The Aesthetic Gesture

The symbolist Romanian poet Traian Demetrescu wrote a few articles and an essay discussing the limits of aesthetics and poetry outside of the poem itself. The writer captures poetic moments, in Laurent Jenny’s terms, preceding the writing of the poem or simply existing outside of it. It confers to some situations and objects the attribute of poeticity; consequently, a series of objects appear to him as endowed with a sort of poetic expressiveness. Traian Demetrescu thus realizes the widening of the perception of the poem at the moment when the Romanian culture steped into the first modernist stage at the end of the 19th century.

Keywords: Romanian pre-war literature, symbolism, Traian Demetrescu, poetic vs. prosaic, aesthetic gesture, pre-war aesthetic

Mateiu I. Caragiale, Opere / Works, ediție, studiu introductiv, note, variante și comentarii de Barbu Cioculescu, prefață de Eugen Simion, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, București, 2001
Emil Cioran, Caiete II 1966-1968 / Notebooks II 1966-1968, traducere din franceză de Emanoil Marcu și Vlad Russo, Ediția a II-a, Humanitas, București, 2010
Traian Demetrescu, Scrieri alese / Selected Works, cuvânt înainte de C.D.Papastate, Editura pentru Literatură, București, 1968
Laurent Jenny, La vie esthétique. Stases et flux / The Aesthetic Life. Stances and Flux, Éditions Verdier, Paris, 2013
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Doris Mironescu, Un secol al memoriei. Literatură și conștiință comunitară în epoca romantică / A Century of Memory. Literature and Communitary Conscience in the Romantic Age, Editura Universității ”Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iași, 2016
Radu Vancu, Elegie pentru uman. O critică a modernității poetice de la Pound la Cărtărescu / Elegy for the Human. A Critique of Poetic Modernity from Pound to Cărtărescu, Humanitas, București, 2016
Oscar Wilde, Decăderea minciunii / The Decay of Lying, traducere și note de Magda Teodorescu, prefață de Mircea Mihăieș, Editura Polirom, Iași, 2001

About Institutions & Continuities. The Lessons of H.-R. Patapievici & Mircea Cărtărescu. Or, About the Attention to the Other as a Method of Institutional Construction

The present article aims at observing how H.-R. Patapievici and Mircea Cărtărescu have become the two main institutions of contemporary Romanian writing. Namely, how their incessant attention to the other has eventually led towards the building of their impressive body of works; in what concerns H.-R Patapievici, his puzzling array of philosophical and intellectual interests originates in this impassionate attention to the other, which leads him both to examine „the recent human” and to deplore the absence of „a market for the ideas”. In what regards Cărtărescu, the same „attention the other” is the punctum origo of his massive prose works, culminating with his recent novel Solenoid (an 800-page humanist manifesto) and with Landscape After Hysteria (a collection of social, political, and ethical attitudes). Therefore, it is this apparently naïve „attention towards the other” that represents the most effective institutional philosophy of the present.

Keywords: contemporary Romanian literature, H.-R. Patapievici, Mircea Cărtărescu, institutional construction, attention to the other, market for the idea, humanist manifesto, Solenoid, Romanian Cultural Institute

Mircea Cărtărescu, Peisaj după isterie. Articole 2007-2017 / Landscape After Hysteria. Articles 2007-2017, București, Humanitas, 2017
Mircea Cărtărescu, Postmodernismul românesc / Romanian Postmodernism, București, Humanitas, 2010, ediția a treia
Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid, București, Humanitas, 2015
H.-R. Patapievici, Politice / Political Writings, București, Humanitas, 2002, ediția a treia
H.-R. Patapievici, Viața la 17 ani / Life at 17, manuscris nepublicat
H.-R. Patapievici, Zbor în bătaia săgeții / Flight in the Sight of the Arrow, București, Humanitas, 2010, ediția a treia