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Cartea numerilor di Florina Ilis
Full text linkLike her previous books, Florina Ilis’ latest novel, Cartea numerilor [The Book of Numbers], is a book-flow, a total-book, due to its dimensions, where the narrative becomes epic and where the author paints broad frescoes of Romanian history, culture, and society in which fiction and reality coexist harmoniously or are combined to elevate rather than confuse. Here, Florina Ilis “plays at home”. The narrated events are set against the backdrop of the author’s native Transylvania over a period of time that spans from the First World War to the present day, passing through the years of the communistdictatorship. On the one hand, everything revolves around the events of a village commemorating its 500th anniversary since the first attestation and, on the other, around a family saga, together creating a complex puzzle of collective memory within the larger historical framework that connects tragedies and dictatorship-era atrocities
Revisiting the Interwar Period. Imitation, Synchronism and the Archive in the Films of Radu Jude
Full text linkThe theory of synchronism was one of the most influential ideas in the Romanian interwar period. Eugen Lovinescu championed the powers of imitation as a means of development for Romanian culture and society. At the same time, it was a case of illegitimate filiation that led to the uncritical importation of several types of ideas from Western European culture. By analysing Radu Jude’s found footage montage films, I argue that not all versions of imitation are in fact as positive as Lovinescu considered and speak about a newer concept of genealogy, one that relies on archives and that constructs a new regime of knowledge in the case of the representation of recent history
Tradiția „ospitalieră” a povestirii în Hanu Ancuței de Mihail Sadoveanu
Full text linkThis paper aims to discuss and analyse the relation between the art of fiction and the hospitable identity in Hanu Ancuței (1928) by Mihail Sadoveanu (1880-1961) – a Romanian novel that celebrates the tradition of the Moldavian oral storytelling. We will analyse the topics and the intertextual patterns of this book (famous frame stories of the Orient and Occident like The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Margueritte de Navarre’s Heptameron, Sindipa the Wise or The Thousand and One Nights Tales, related novels of the Balkans like The Inn at Antimovo by Iordan Iovkov and The Bridge of the Drina by Ivo Andrić, as well as previous writings of Sadoveanu himself, like Crâșma lui moș Precu). We will investigate the subtle relations between myth, magic, legend, and history in the tales of the guests, focusing on their mindsets and social identities. In fact, the ceremony of storytelling is a way to share different identities and values under the sign of convivial hospitality and tolerance. Finally, we intended to highlight the fictional archaeology of the Moldavian tradition and Sadoveanu’s “art of branding” in this literary masterpiece
Hélène Vacaresco pour les siens. Une histoire d’héritage, dette et culpabilité
Full text linkThe text proposes an analysis of the destiny and activity of Elena Văcărescu, the last descendant of the “family of poets” considered to be the founder of Romanian culture – as an exemplary illustration of how a creative life can be affected, in its entirety, by accepting a legacy. From the first moment when, still a teenager, she begins to write verses in French and sees herself sanctioned, through an anathema, by Eminescu, as an unworthy heir – and until the end of her career as a poet in France (distinguished twice with the Award of the French Academy), Elena will only deepen, always reformulating, the consciousness of guilt towards herfamily, and, through it, towards Romania. This guilt makes her never be able to project herself in relation to her native country, other than in the modest positions of “messenger” and cultural “mediator”, while her adopted country enshrines her as a “poet”
Invented Genealogies, Forgotten Genealogies, Repressed Genealogies, Recovered Genealogies. A Survey About the Romanian Genealogical Knowledge
Full text linkI will try, in the following lines, to present a brief history of Romanian genealogical knowledge and the successive losses that have marked it. In my view, these losses, these successive mournings influence even today the way we relate to our own ancestors and, more broadly, the way we relate to the memory of the community and to each other
Genealogy and Degenerescence: the Culture of Decadent Legacy
Full text linkStarting with the considerations formulated by the philosopher Maël Renouard in his essay Nostalgie et mélancolie regarding the both material and symbolic meaning of a heritage and from Nietzsche’s reflection on the connection between heritage and memory, we analyzed this topic from the conjugate perspective of decadent aesthetics and philosophy of decadence as approached by theorists such as Mario Praz, A.E.Carter, Richard Gilman, David Weir, Barbara Spackman, Matei Calinescu and philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, or Emil Cioran and degenerationist theories of heredity from the late 19th century. From the perspective of heritage as cultural memory and defective heredity correlated with the decadent theme of the last living scion of an aristocratic family or of genius as a “superior degenerate” in Cesare Lombroso’s terms, we approached two relevant texts in this sense: the novel Against the Grain by K.-J. Huysmans and the short story Remember by the Romanian writer Mateiu I. Caragiale. The decadent aesthete type becomes the depository of an extended cultural memory, a living library/pinacotheque, at a time when the heritage can no longer be passed on but only exhibited for the last time
Nicolae Iorga, Doctor Honoris Causa dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza
Full text linkNicolae Iorga, Romanian historian, politician, and literary critic, was awarded a Honorary Degree by the University of Roma (Faculty of Letters). This study aims to chronologically reconstruct the events, from the proposal to the awarding of the academic honour to the Romanian President of the Democratic Nationalist Party on 31 January 1933, through documents, press articles and photographs found in the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Italy), in the Archive of the University of Bucharest, at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History (Bucharest), and at the “Nicolae Iorga” Memorial Museum (Vălenii de Munte)
