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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
Marius Popa, Andreea Bugiac (coord.), L’animal en littérature, entre fantaisie et fantastique, Casa Cărții de Știință, Cluj-Napoca 2022
No full textSpaces of Drift: Unreconstructed Pasts in Șerban Savu’s Paintings
Full text linkThis paper analyses the metaphorical and structural idea of broken filiations and explores the possibilities of representation conveyed by a heteroge-neous historical position in post-communist Romania and, more generally, on the globalized scene of transitions. It tries to look at the discontinuous relation with the past from two dimensions: the re-negotiation of cultural identity in a post-industrial setting marked by a modernizing drive, drawn on the metaphor of the ‘orphan’, and the turn towards a classless world of the masses, generating conflicting forms of memory and representation. This broken cultural geography of linearity and genealogies dismantles the old structures that yielded place bound identities, generating an interstitial sense of temporality shaped by new forms of cultural mediation. The visual artistic language of Șerban Savu is illustrative for these theoretical ideas that try to comprehend the crisis of the subject at the dawn of a new globalized world, ‘fathering’ a present in ruins, marked by an underlying sense of inhabiting disinherited spatial and temporal frames
The Genealogical Aura of the Davila Family
Full text linkOne of the long-lasting narratives developed around a family involved in the establishment of Romanian modernity in the 19th and 20th centuries is that of the illustrious physician Carol Davila. Of uncertain descent, most likely abandoned at birth and adopted by an Italian family from which he takes his name with heraldic-ornithological resonance (d’Avila), the founder of the Romanian school of medicine invents a fantasy family genealogy, combining famous European biographies, memory lapses, and Romantic melodrama. This illegitimate legacy will leave its mark on the activities of the next generation, on the one hand, enabling a calling to implement Western ideas in Romanian institutions and, on the other, stimulating a quasi-patriarchal cult for memory constructs, equivalent to the fabrication of what Paul Ricoeur called “a prior real”. This paper aims to look at the ways in which an identity complex remains engraved in public and private acts of memory
Alex Drace-Francis, Istoria mămăligii. Povestea globală a unui preparat național, tr. Anca Bărbulescu, Humanitas, București 2023
No full textFiliation endeuillée: figures, styles, politiques de l’héritage dans la culture roumaine
No full textMihail Dragomirescu și dialogurile morților: în căutarea poporului care lipsește
Full text linkRomanian critic Mihail Dragomirescu (1868-1942) chose to present his philosophical system in the form of dialogues of the dead. The book appeared in 1929 under the title Philosophical Dialogues. Integralism, and contains 44 numbered dialogues with 8 interlocutors. Other dialogues, however, had been published seven years earlier in the cultural and political press, covering topics related to polemics, critical debates, or even satire. The study focuses on the complex issues involved in the revival of an ancient genre invented by Lucian of Samosata and developed in the form of ephemera, pamphlets and colportage literature between the 17th and 18th centuries. The main question concerns the role that the dialogues of the dead play in problematizing a changing society in the context of post-World War I Romania. Emphasizing the significance of time and anachronism in the dialogues of the dead, the paper investigates, based on the reflections of Giorgio Agamben, Georges Di-di-Huberman and Vinciane Despret, the elaboration of perspectives on the common and the imaginary deployment of a “People”
Filiaţie obligată. Eminescu în biblioteca interioară a Anei Blandiana
Full text linkThis study proposes a reflection on a poetic lineage (both difficult to circumscribe and unanimously accepted in the history of Romanian literature) between the Romantic Mihai Eminescu (object of a real cult of the “national poet”, but also a poet of the First Modernism) and Ana Blandiana, one of the most important figures of Romanian Late Modernism. I am resuming, on this occasion, some critical considerations I wrote some 30 years ago, on the “Eminescianism” of Ana Blandiana’s poetry, manifested mainly at the level of the literary imaginary – in order to add a few new examples and recontextualize it all, both from a theoretical point of view (intertextuality? imaginary libraries? affective stylistics?), as well as in terms of the clarifications offered, in the last three decades, by the poet herself
Lettere, documenti, volumi: cartografando la genesi di Eminescu o dell’Assoluto
Full text linkStarting from the bibliography of the volume Eminescu o dell’Assoluto and using Rosa Del Conte’s papers conserved in her Archive (Milano), I will reconstruct the main lines of study followed by the philologist, evoking the main features that link the study published by Rosa Del Conte to the Eminescology school of Cluj, determining the genesis of her research and the methodology adopted by the scholar in recovering an originality that is first and foremost a legacy
