Instances of Faustian in Romanian Literature: ‘The Case’ of Caragiale
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Romanian Book Review Address of the Editorial Office : the Romanian Cultural Institute , Playwrights’ Club at the RCI Aleea Alexandru No
Published by the Romanian Cultural Institute Romanian ditorial by ANDREI Book REORIENMTARTGIOA NS IN EUROPE For several years now, there are percepti- ble cEhanges in our world. In the late eighties, liberal democracy continued the expansion started after World War II, at least in Europe. Meanwhile, national states have weakened, under the pressure to liberalize trade and the fight for recognition of minority (ethnic, poli- Review tical, sexual, etc.) movements. Globalization of the economy, communications, security, ISSUED MONTHLY G No. 5 G JUNE 2013 G DISTRIBUTED FOR FREE knowledge has become a reality. The financial crisis that broke out in 2008 surprised the world organized on market prin- ciples as economic regulator, and threatens to develop into an economic crisis with extended repercussions still hard to detect. U.S. last two elections favored the advocates of “change”, and the policy reorientation of the first world power does not remain without consequences for all mankind. On the stage of the producers of the world, China and Germany are now the first exporters. Russia lies among the powers that cannot be ignored in a serious political approach. (...) What happens, now? Facts cannot be cap- tured only by impressions, perceptions and occasional random experiences, even though many intellectuals are lured by them, produ- cing the barren chatter around us. Systematic TTThhhrrreeeeee DDDaaayyysss WWWiiittthhh thinking is always indispensable to those who want to actually understand what is going on . Not long ago, the famous National Intelligence Council, which, in the U.S., periodically offers interpretations of the global trends, published Global Report 2015 (2008). -
Ion Luca Caragiale
ION LUCA CARAGIALE ▪ 1852-1912 ▪ Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist ▪ leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humor ▪ works: • Conul Leonida (1879; “Mr. Leonida”) • O noapte furtunoasă (1880; “A Stormy Night”) • O scrisoare pierdută (1884; “A Lost Letter”) • Năpasta (1890; “The False Accusation”) • O făclie de Paște (1889; “An Easter Torch”) • Păcat (1892; “The Sin”) • Kir Ianulea (1909) • Momente and Schițe MIRCEA ELIADE ▪ 1907-1986 ▪ Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago ▪ leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day ▪ his theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential ▪ works: • Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), • Noaptea de Sânziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), • Isabel și apele diavolului ("Isabel and the Devil's Waters") • Romanul Adolescentului Miop ("Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent"), • Domnișoara Christina ("Miss Christina") • Tinerețe fără tinerețe ("Youth Without Youth) • Secretul doctorului Honigberger ("The Secret of Dr. Honigberger") • La Țigănci ("With the Gypsy Girls"). MIRCEA ELIADE ▪ 1850-1889 ▪ Romantic poet, novelist, and -
Textual Transpositions and Identity Games in I.L. Caragiale's Late
Textual Transpositions and Identity Games in I.L. Caragiale’s Late Writings ∗ Doris MIRONESCU Key-words: cultural identity , irony , ambivalence , Balkan literature , textual transposition The first critical edition of I.L. Caragiale’s Works , initiated by Paul Zarifopol in 1930 at “Cultura Na ţional ă” Publishing House, opens with the famous photo of the author taken in Berlin, in which Caragiale sits cross-legged, oriental-style, on a similarly themed rug, dressed in Balkanic garb, wearing a fez and white long socks, posing evidently for the camera with his chin resting on his closed hand and his eyes gazing intently to the right. But, even in these carefully asorted Levantine surroundings, one cannot fail to notice that behind the posing artist there is a heavily stacked library, filled with thick manuscripts that seem to overflow. The image is, therefore, twice symbolic: on the one hand, because in it Caragiale seems to claim to be returning to the “ethnic roots” that he often reclaimed polemically, orally and in writing, precisely to contradict the partisans of a ridiculous and violent Romanian nationalism; on the other hand, because this return takes place in the foreground of a library, or better yet of literature 1. Caragiale’s entire work is characterized by a frequent use of intertextual procedures, but these appear to become even more often in his last period of creation, in Berlin (1905–1912). The critics have long remarked that “Caragiale drew a character face for himself” (Tomu ş 1977: 340) but he exploited it especially now, in the later years at Berlin, to present himself under the largely known name “nenea Iancu” ( Ţal!.. -
Proquest Dissertations
LITERATURE, MODERNITY, NATION THE CASE OF ROMANIA, 1829-1890 Alexander Drace-Francis School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Thesis submitted for the degree of PhD June, 2001 ProQuest Number: U642911 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest. ProQuest U642911 Published by ProQuest LLC(2016). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 ABSTRACT The subject of this thesis is the development of a literary culture among the Romanians in the period 1829-1890; the effect of this development on the Romanians’ drive towards social modernization and political independence; and the way in which the idea of literature (as both concept and concrete manifestation) and the idea of the Romanian nation shaped each other. I concentrate on developments in the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (which united in 1859, later to form the old Kingdom of Romania). I begin with an outline of general social and political change in the Principalities in the period to 1829, followed by an analysis of the image of the Romanians in European public opinion, with particular reference to the state of cultural institutions (literacy, literary activity, education, publishing, individual groups) and their evaluation for political purposes. -
Intercultural Fantasies of Female Cruelty: Reflections on Gender and Power
DOSAR SPECIAL: EGALITATE, LIBERTATE, FEMINITATE INTERCULTURAL FANTASIES OF FEMALE CRUELTY: REFLECTIONS ON GENDER AND POWER Marina CAP-BUN Ovidius University of Constanţa, Romania Prezentul articol reprezintă o analiză exhaustivă a aspectelor interculturale bazată pe imaginea femeii în literatură, şi anume unele reflecţii asupra puterii feminine. Autoarea confruntă un număr impunător de opere pentru a scoate în evidenţă trăsăturile puterii şi luptei lăuntrice a Femeii. By the beginning of the twentieth century Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912) was already a well-established artist, aware of the fact that he had reached his artistic ma- turity. His plays were translated in many languages and successfully played in France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Russia, and his tragedy Năpasta (The Scourge) was even plagiarized by the French dramatist André de Lorde, provoking a huge scandal in both Romanian and French literary magazines. Caragiale refused to sue his French plagia- rist who, in fact, was making him more famous in Paris, as he acknowledged that his play was already entering the gallery of inciting universal themes, and it was by now provoking responses.1 In Romania, the controversies around his theatre were some- how diminished (although they never ceased to exist up to the present day), his texts were regularly reedited, his plays often staged, and the young scholar Horia Petra-Pre- descu was already conducting serious research about his life and career while writing a monographic doctoral thesis on the subject, which was to be published in 1911.2 So, in spite of his active enemies, he was generally recognized as a classic of Romanian literature. -
Roxana PATRAŞ Eminescu's Short Prose
126 Roxana PATRAŞ Roxana PATRAŞ Eminescu’s Short Prose: Urban Casting for Some Uncanny Stories Abstract Discretely polemical towards G. Călinescu’s view on Mihai Eminescu’s genuine ‘rurality’, Ilina Gregori has already shown that the courses he attended in Berlin moved the artist’s eye from countryside to town experiences; as a matter of fact, the poet’s sojourns in two imperial capitals (Vienna and Berlin) left a ‘cityscape’ equation in his writings, which also altered his former literary projects. Among these changes, Ilina Gregori mentions the bitter resignation on his playwright ambitions and, conversely, Eminescu’s virtual endorsement of prose. Thus, the poet’s turn to uncanny short- stories and sketches (Sărmanul Dionis, Cezara, La aniversară), or to perplexing novel schemes (Geniu pustiu) must bear the trace of an identity shift: for Eminescu, it was not theatre but prose-writing the genre that must have seemed the best tactic to draw the attention of the bourgeois public from the flourishing Romanian cities. Placed in-between the poles of slum-like Bucharest and idyllic Iaşi, narrating urbanity comes in line with the artist’s conversion to city-life and habits. Similarly, the famous friendship with Creangă and Slavici (both of them professed ‘countrymen’) can give the true measure of Eminescu’s new urban identity. Keywords: outskirts, cathedral, miniature, white house, temple, architecture, cityscape, Realism, upward mobility, Gothic, uncanny. I. Introduction. Rusticity and urbanity: the Gothic spirit within us Among the decorum characteristics of Mihai Eminescu’s work, G. Călinescu Roxana PATRAŞ insists on “rusticity”, which is actually connected, whether directly or indirect- PhD, Department of Interdisciplinary Research – Human and Social Sciences, ly, with “sprouting”, “savage geology”, “A.I. -
Understanding the Punctuation and Spelling Signs in Romania to Eliminate Functional Illiteracy
Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 12(61) No. 2 – 2019 https://doi.org/10.31926/but.ssl.2019.12.61.2.10 UNDERSTANDING THE PUNCTUATION AND SPELLING SIGNS IN ROMANIA TO ELIMINATE FUNCTIONAL ILLITERACY Ramona Mirabela OPREA1 Abstract: The international comparative research initiated by the OECD in the 1990s has shown that a considerable proportion of Europeans are classified as functional illiterates, even though they have completed at least primary school. Spelling and punctuation condition the specific human- readable-writing process. We can counteract this deficit perfectly and diminish the scale of the phenomenon of functional illiteracy, giving individuals and social groups another chance for education. The need to express ideas in writing so that they can be understood by the reader may increase the interest in studying spelling and punctuation, as well as establishing rules for their use. This article proposes to address punctuation and spelling signs with examples that could be used as part of an option for primary education in Romania in order to reduce functional illiteracy. Keywords: functional illiteracy, literacy, primary education, spelling signs, punctuation marks 1. Introduction Until the late 1960s, illiteracy was treated in developed countries as a scary phenomenon in the poor and backward areas of the south. The conviction that the problem has been resolved forever has been universal and well anchored in the consciousness of European societies (Daniel, 2000). Later, discovering the scale of illiteracy in the developed countries of the West has caused shocks and surprises. The functional illiterate contemporary person knows the letters in their individuality but does not know how to connect them. -
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The Revolutionary Force of the Periphery: The Levant, Nostalgia, and World Literature Delia Ungureanu University of Bucharest and Harvard University abstract: The December 1989 Revolution that overthrew the Communist regime brought Romanian literature back on the international literary market and dramat- ically changed the conditions for production and circulation. However, there was a lively circulation of foreign literature through translation into Romanian well before 1989. Here I will argue that Mircea Cărtărescu’s two major texts written in the late 1980s — the verse epic Levantul (The Levant) and the poetic novelNostalgia — can be seen as works of world literature through their intertextual dialogue, even though they were created with no expectation that they would ever circulate through translation beyond national borders. With their intertextual rewriting in an ironic and parodic manner, Cărtărescu’s works have been presented abroad as landmarks of Romanian postmodernism, but this essay argues that Cărtărescu’s manner of rewriting is closer to the nostalgic, serious, and constructive rewriting found in radically modernist texts. Cărtărescu’s The Levant and Nostalgia illustrate Pascale Casanova’s point that the revo- lutionizing of literary practices comes from the periphery of the literary field. This was doubly so during a politically controlled period that allowed Cărtărescu to choose his intertexts in the absence of any strategic hierarchy that would please the center and free from any expectation of gaining recognition from -
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IVII >||_ ILITEKAR ŢĂRANI, desen de ISER An. XLII, Nr. 15. 11 Aprilie 192«. Lei S. UNIVERSUL LITERAR Cina cea de Taină Băteai domol.., şi norii silnici cercau zadarnic să te-ascundă Când Ţi-am deschis, în noaptea ceia, cămara-mi sufle tului scundă. De cum intraşi, târând lumina de lunga-Ţi haină aninată, Chilerul mi-a părut mai muced, poiata mai întunecată, A dona înviere, In port Şi'n duhnitorul întuneric, pândind prin col juri înfoiat, Eu însu-mi n'aveam loc, bicisnic, ci stăm pe brânci şi 'ncovoiat. Am coborît vadul cu nădejdea să regă sesc imaginile de altădată. Circulara mi Dar ridicaşi din tindă mâna uşor spre-a binecuvânta nistrului de interne na sosit încă şi Sfin Şi iată, se bolti tavanul 'nălţându-se de-asupra Ta... tele Paşti se ţin de stilul nou. Insă stilul Te-am cunoscut, deşi veniseşi un tainic oaspc nechemat nou cade în iarnă şi în portul cariat de Şi-am priceput că'Ţi-este sete şi încă Doamne n'ai cinat: vreme, de „ocupaţie" (!) şi de politică va „M'am abătut să fac la tine, de'ngădui, Cina cea de taină. mală, bate crivăţul dinspre stepele Rusiei Chiverniseşte pentru Paşte şi pune-ţi grabnic altă haină. şi întărâtă apa Dunării, ca in preziua în gheţului. Grăbesc pasul printre liniile fe Adună rudele şi soţii, cu slugile Ja sărbătoare rate şi mă apropii de debarcaderul ofi Şi toarnă apă caldă'n vase să-i spăl frăţeşte pe picioare".,. cial. Câţiva hamali în zdrenţe dc sărbă — Stăpâne, Ţi-am răspuns, şi glasul în gât mi se făcuse ghem, toare, vântură un grâu posomorât. -
Psychological and Mysterious Matters Existing in the Short Stories of I.L.Caragiale
Annalsăofătheă„ConstantinăBrâncu i”ăUniversityăofăTârguăJiu,ăLetterăandăSocialăScienceăSeries, 1/2016 ș PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MYSTERIOUS MATTERS EXISTING IN THE SHORT STORIES OF I.L.CARAGIALE Associate Professor PhD Mirabela Rely Odette CURELAR “ConstantinăBrâncuşi”ăUniversityăof Târgu-Jiu ABSTRACT. CARAGIALEΝ CREATESΝ FOLLY’SΝ CASES,Ν SADΝ ORΝ LIVELY,Ν POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE SCENES, COMICS OR STUPID, BUT THE MADNESS FROM HIS SHORT-STORIES IS NOT OBVIOUSLY HIS REAL INTENTION. HE IS LESS AN OCCASIONAL ANALYST OF HEREDITARY MALADIES AND MUCH MORE AN OBSERVER OF MANNERS. HIS HEROES ARE MARKED OF TERROR AND ANXIETY. THE MADNESS OF HIS CHARACTERS DEVELOP A MIXTURE OF LUCIDITY AND IRRATIONAL, OF INFINITE DELIRIUM, AN UNPREDICTABLE CONDITION FOR THE READER TO SEE THE TRUTH OR THE FANTASY. THE LESSONS OF HUMANITY CAN DRIVE US TO TERRIFYING FEELINGS, STRONG MADNESS OR MENTAL TERROR. CARAGIALE ACCEPTS WITH DIGNITY AS HIS HEROES TO TAKE PART OF VIOLENCE SCENES AND TO REVEALS THEIR BRUTAL BEHAVIOR. THE STORIES OF CARAGIALE ARE ABOUT GREAT PSYCHOLOGICAL AND MYSTERIOUS MATTERS AND THE AUTHOR IS INTERESTED IN THE CHARACTERS ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY ARE MOLDED BYΝTHEΝEVENTS.ΝTHEΝESSENTIALΝMYSTERIESΝOFΝCARAGIALE′SΝCREATIONΝREMINDΝTOΝTEASEΝUSΝ INTO AND OUT OF THOUGHT. HIS CREATION IS AN INSTANCE OF A TEXT AT FIGHT WITH ITSELF, TO FIND AN ORGANIC FORM FOR THE UNITY OF HIS STRUCTURE. KEYWORDS: MADNESS, MALADIES, ANXIETY, DELIRIUM, MENTAL TERROR. Caragiale offers us many new causes and themes for our native fiction that were not developed too much in the Romanian literature, until to him. We can observe in his short stories his concern for the human matters, their difficult substance and the fact that he was the only who attacked these matters. -
The Intercultural Challenge
MOLESTO: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi THE INTERCULTURAL CHALLENGE – ROMANIAN CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF TURKISH IDENTITY Marina Cap-Bun1 Abstract Romanian culture developed a special interest for Oriental themes, embodied in various forms of artistic manifestations, so that, in time, a number of writers (Dimitrie Cantemir, Cilibi Moise, Anton Pann, Dimitrie Bolinineanu, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ion Barbu, Mateiu Caragiale, Eugen Barbu, Silviu Angelescu among them), dramatists (Ion Luca Caragiale, Victor Ion Popa), painters (Theodor Aman, Nicolae Tonitza), musicians (Dimitrie Cantemir, Anton Pann) have become well-known for being perceptibly attached to the Turkish world, and for the developing a specific lexis in order to praise the magnificence and wisdom of the Orient. Makale Bilgisi Keywords: Culture, Romania, Turkey, Dimitrie Cantemir Gönderildiği tarih: Romanian culture developed a special interest for Oriental themes, embodied 17.03.2019 in various forms of artistic manifestations, so that, in time, a number of writers Kabul edildiği tarih: (Dimitrie Cantemir, Cilibi Moise, Anton Pann, Dimitrie Bolinineanu, Mihail 02.07.2019 Yayınlanma tarihi: Sadoveanu, Ion Barbu, Mateiu Caragiale, Eugen Barbu, Silviu Angelescu among 30.07.2019 them), dramatists (Ion Luca Caragiale, Victor Ion Popa), painters (Theodor Aman, Nicolae Tonitza), musicians (Dimitrie Cantemir, Anton Pann) have become well- Article Info known for being perceptibly attached to the Turkish world, and for the developing a Date submitted: specific lexis in order to praise the magnificence and wisdom of the Orient. 17.03.2019 At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the influence of the European Date accepted: 02.07.2019 Romanticism enhanced this appeal of the exotic Oriental world, but, at the same Date published: time, brought about a strong emphasis on national identities, mainly manifested as 30.07.2019 glorification of the past, revival of the local myths and folk arts, portraying of the natural splendors of “the book of nature”, and intense, sometimes conflicting, emotions. -
Turcologie BT.Pdf
STUDIA ET DOCUMENTA TURCOLOGICA President Academician Professor Ioan-Aurel POP, Ph.D. International Scientific Board Professor Jean-Louis BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT, Ph.D. (France) Professor Emeritus Peter B. GOLDEN, Ph.D. (U.S.A.) Academician Professor György HAZAI, Ph.D. (Hungary) Professor Mustafa KAÇALIN, Ph.D. (Turkey) Professor Emeritus Kemal KARPAT, Ph.D. (U.S.A.) Professor Barbara KELLNER-HEINKELE, Ph.D. (Germany) Academician Professor Raphael S. KHAKIMOV, Ph.D. (Russian Federation) Professor Sergei KLASTORNIY, Ph.D. (Russian Federation) Professor Shahin MUSTAFAYEV, Ph.D. (Rep. Azerbaijan) Academician Professor Victor SPINEI, Ph.D. (Romania) Director Professor Călin FELEZEU, Ph.D. Editorial Board Editor-in-chief: Professor Tasin GEMIL, Ph.D. Deputy editor-in-chief : Nagy PIENARU, Ph.D. Editorial board secretary: Adina FODOR, Ph.D. Margareta ASLAN, Ph.D. Virgil COMAN, Ph.D. Giuseppe COSSUTO, Ph.D. Adriana CUPCEA, Ph.D. Jale ISMAIYLOVA, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. Cezmi KARASU, Ph.D. Ilnur MIRGALIYEV, Ph.D. UNIVERSITATEA BABEŞ-BOLYAI INSTITUTUL DE TURCOLOGIE ŞI STUDII CENTRAL-ASIATICE STUDIA ET DOCUMENTA TURCOLOGICA PRESA UNIVERSITARĂ CLUJEANĂ 2013 ISSN: 2344 – 6560 ISSN-L: 2344 – 6560 © 2013 Editorii volumului. Toate drepturile rezervate. Reproducerea integrală sau parţială a textului, prin orice mij- loace, fără acordul editorilor, este interzisă şi se pedepseşte conform legii. Tehnoredactare computerizată: Cristian-Marius Nuna Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Presa Universitară Clujeană Director: Codruţa Săcelean Str. Hasdeu nr. 51 400371 Cluj-Napoca, România Tel./Fax: (+40)-264-597.401 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.editura.ubbcluj.ro CONTENTS Foreword ........................................................................................................................ 7 The Institute of Turkology and Central-Asian Studies of Babeş-Bolyai University ..... 9 DYACHRONICS OF CULTURE.