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Arina-Codruţa Neagu, Scrierea tăcută, scrierea imposibilă, Casa Cărții de Știință, Cluj-Napoca 2022
No full textStarting from Forgiveness – a Prospect of Archiving the Troubled Past
Full text linkTaking a controversial documentary film as a case study, the article considers forgiveness as a social practice, proposing an alternative to social antagonism between victims and perpetrators. The following chain of reflections is a direct consequence of the violent reactions to a documentary that was intended to give the public access to what had been on the minds of Secret Service officers during an extremely repressive political regime in Communist Romania. The press interpreted the documentary as an attempt to “whiten” the Communist secret service police, which was detrimental to the victims. In line with new theoretical directions that raise the possibility of a peaceful configuration that serves both parties, our approach examines the wider social shifts necessary to provide trans-generational amity through reconciliation and cultural repair
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)
Il dizionario giusto al momento giusto
Full text linkThe present text aims to give a brief description of the recent Valentina Negritescu’s Dictionary, published by the Hoepli publishing house in Milan this year. A real editorial event, structured on 1648 pages, containing more than 70,000 title-words, with more than 140,000 meanings and more than 250,000 translations, for all those interested in the study of the Romanian language and literature: teachers, translators or simple readers, both Romanian and Italian. After a brief description of the publishing house and its main publications dedicated to the Romanian language, we will focus on the novelties that the dictionary brings. It is also an opportunity to bring back into discussion the role that the dictionary can play in the teaching of foreign languages, in light of the recent coordinates of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages of the Council of Europe
Literary Modernism and Modernity in Romania. Recomposed Community and Past/Present Filiation Models
Full text linkDrawing upon Modernist and Kinship Studies, this essay argues that nowadays community is not dissolved by modernity, nor was it century ago. Literary modernism is one of the places where the modern urbanized community starts to be reassembled based more on ties of affinity than on consanguinity. Even though today this regrouping is more apparent due to the practices of digital coexistence provided by social networks, it was not less of a reality one century ago. Dezrădăcinare [Uprooting] (2022) by Sașa Zare, and Rădăcini [Roots] (1938) by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu have more things in common when it comes to memory and filiation than could be visible to the naked eye
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
The Adopted Child of the Latin Gens: Genealogical Imagery in B. Fundoianu’s Work
Full text linkRevisiting the dual, bio-cultural, imagery ingrained in B. Fundoianu’s essays, engendering a genealogical narrative of literary history, may help us re-evaluate B. Fundoianu’s vision on the Romanian identity, too hastily explained by the “selfcolonizing” metaphor. A double perspective, euchronistic and anachronistic, will be engaged to render the complexities and contradictions of his approach. While the biologist vocabulary sends back to the 19th-century essentialist philosophies of identity, the focus on the East-West encounters resulting in the hybridization of cultural heritages invites fresher re-readings from the standpoint of transnational theories
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