Bulletin of the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library PHILOBIBLON Volume XII 2007 Cluj University Press 2007 Director: Doru RADOSAV Editors: István KIRÁLY, Florina ILIŞ and Ágnes KORONDI Editor of the English Text: Sally WOOD-LAMONT Scientific Advisors: Florina ILIŞ (Criticism and Literary Theory) Gyöngyi ORBÁN (Hungarian Literature and Literary Theory) Doru RADOSAV and Ionuţ COSTEA (History) Enikő ŠKOLKA (Psychology and Cognitive Sciences) Sally WOOD-LAMONT and Ana Maria CĂPÂLNEANU (Librarianship) Translators: Kata RUSU and Ágnes KORONDI Front Cover: arch. Tiberiu TRENEA photogr. György TASNÁDI The PHILOBIBLON Editorial Office welcomes manuscripts for publication! Correspondence related to articles, etc. should be addressed to: PHILOBIBLON “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library Str. 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ISSN 1224 -7448 Contents CULTURE, BOOKS, SOCIETY: ADRIAN MARINO AND HIS HORIZONS Mircea POPA, Adrian Marino or the Daemon of Erudition................. 11 Adrian Marino’s Last Pages................................................................. 24 Emilia-Mariana SOPORAN, An Active Friendship in the Realms of Multiculturalism: Andrei Pippidi–Adrian Marino……………………. 42 Alex GOLDIŞ, The Ideological System of Adrian Marino…………... 59 Florina ILIS, Adrian Marino and the Idea of Literature from a Hermeneutical Perspective……………………………………...…….. 70 Károly VERESS, On the Border of Text and Experience – About Adrian Marino’s Hermeneutics…………………………………...…... 81 Rodica FRENŢIU, Tatakau Hikaku Bungaku. Adrian Marino and the Militant Comparatism in Japan………………………………………. 115 Bujor PĂDUREANU, Das Phänomen des Agon bei Nietzsche.......... 128 Ovidiu PECICAN, A Patriarch of Militant Europeanism: Adrian Marino………………………………………………………………... 162 Constantin M. POPA, Adrian Marino – The Impenitent Critic of Ideas...................................................................................................... 173 Monica SPIRIDON, Under the Zodiac Sign of the Alternative…..... 189 Gábor GYŐRFFY, An Autochthon Alternative of Free Culture during Communism………………………………………………………….. 195 István FEHÉR M., Idea and Tradition of Europe in the Light of Its Own History......................................................................................................... 205 Doru POP, Liberty as a Profession…………………...……………... 229 5 István KIRÁLY V., Liberty and Truth – Fragments about the “Cave- myth”…………………………… ………………………………..... 236 Sidonia GRAMA NEDEIANU, The Catharsis of Going out into the Street: Experiencing the 1989 Romanian Revolution………………... 251 LIBRARIANSHIP: HERMENEUTICA BIBLIOTHECARIA Mircea ANGHELESCU, Adrian Marino and the Existential Library. An Essay………………………………………………………...……….. 279 Felix OSTROVSCHI, A Different Discourse – Adrian Marino……. 284 Rozália PORÁCZKY, Hungarian Cultural History in the Second Half of the 19th Century in Transylvania...................................................... 296 Gheorghe VAIS, The University Library of Cluj – 1906–1909…….. 307 Luminiţa TOMUŢA, Remodelling a Library – Remodelling Mentalities............................................................................................ 352 Gabriela MORĂRESCU, 2005: a New Approach to Branch Libraries…............................................................................................ 358 Mariana FALUP, Achievements and Perspectives in Library Automation and Modernization…………………………………...…. 375 Carmen CRIŞAN, Using the Scientific Databases Subscribed to by the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library in the Year 2005…...…... 382 Alina Ioana ŞUTA, From the International Exchange of Publications to the Exchange of Experience – a Polish Contact…………………...… 403 Costel DUMITRAŞCU, Bibliographic Information or Tracking the Book in the Library…………………………………………………... 413 SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY Emilia-Mariana SOPORAN, The Adrian Marino Archive Collection of the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library……………………… 419 6 Judit KOLUMBÁN, Exhibition of 16–18th Century Manuscripts in the “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library, Homo Scribens: Memory Culture and the Typology of Writing in the 16–18th Century……...… 428 MISCELLANEA Ruxandra CESEREANU, Adrian Marino between Unit-ideas and Zeitgeist………………………………………………………………. 437 Iulia GRAD, Jewish Philosophy: between Jerusalem and Athens….. 441 Raluca SOARE, A Man, a Book, a Library. Traian Brad – a Servant of Books……………………………………………………………...…. 447 Ildikó BÁN, Lidia Kulikovski: Library Services for People with Special Needs (Textbook for Librarians)……………………………………... 450 Ioana ROBU–Sally WOOD-LAMONT, The 10th Conference of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL)................................................................................................ 454 7 CULTURE, BOOKS, SOCIETY ADRIAN MARINO AND HIS HORIZONS Philobiblon – Vol. XII - 2007 Adrian Marino or the Daemon of Erudition Mircea POPA Faculty of Letters, “1 December 1918” University, Alba Iulia Keywords: professional, uomo universale, comparatist, road-finder and opener, European values Abstract The paper presents Adrian Marino, the daemon of erudition, the uomo universale in extinction. He was that type of erudite who lived at the confluence of two or three cultures, and aspired towards the universal Republic of Letters. He had fought for an open and dialogical culture, though his aspirations towards culture had been rejected for more than a decade by the interdiction of his signature right. Each of Adrian Marino’s books from Viaţa lui Alexandru Macedonski, until the Biografia ideii de literatură, and Pentru Europa put up in value the national potential of literary ideology, the authentic signals of our Europeanisation. Marino the comparativist and the ideologue was a voice that we needed, a constructive civic spirit who always had in sight each stratum of society, sailing over vast spaces the way he used to do in his literary works. E-mail: [email protected] Adrian Marino, the renowned man of culture and the outstanding comparatist unexpectedly passed away in Cluj on the night of 16 and 17 March in full creative power. He was a real phenomenon in the domains of our literary criticism and history that substantially marked Romanian literary life for a half century. In a period, when books were written about party activists and about the literary stream of the “Contemporanul” (magazine published by the socialist circle) Marino demonstrated that our literature had an other side as well, and which absolutely deserved to be explored and emphasized: symbolism, modernism, avant-garde. Thus he revealed the European vocation of Romanian literature along the Romanian presence in the international value-circulation. In a period of suppression by the postulations of the protochronist literature, by the suburban spirit of the Groapa and of Morometian ruralism, Adrian Marino turned our face towards Europe, revealing to us another model of our cultural mentality built up with such 11 Philobiblon – Vol. XII - 2007 enhancement in Cahiers roumains d’etudes Littéraires through which we attained another view on literature. For many the journal from Cluj represented a genuine literary school, a model of literary manifestation beyond serial novels and welcome criticism that dominated the literary actuality of the period. Settled down in Cluj after eight years of detention and other six of house arrest, Adrian Marino was the author of a literary creation, which together with the work of the members of the Sibiu Literary Circle – who also returned after an long absence – had visibly influenced the literary destiny of many creators, thus essentially contributing to the opening of ideas which appeared at the horizon simultaneously with the political loosening that scattered the mists of a smothering and obscure proletarian culture. The expressive and stylistic refinement, the ample circumscription of the problems were nourished by an elaborate and high quality culture which fertilized new spiritual realms for example that of the literary mentalities and ideas. Adrian Marino was a champion of ideological criticism, of the comparativist approach, and of the literary idea – a line launched in 1973 (with his Dictionary of the Literary Ideas and the above mentioned journal which was edited by him in 1973– 1980). This was conceived as a kind of alternative option to the official culture, for the stiffened officials of the age refused to offer him a position worthy of his knowledge and competence. Later, it was him who rejected the socialist charity and preferred working without “service certificate” or, as he liked to declare, “I remained up to this very day an entirely free professional”. The comparativist phase was also sustained both by means of a long series of study travels and by means of books attempting to bring the West home to us, for “I in the first place wanted to study in foreign libraries, to publish in another environment, arrested and imprisoned in full intellectual growth, nipped in the bud.” An entire sequence of travel journals, impressions and commentaries were thus born, such as Ole Espagna, 1974, Carnete Europene (European Notebooks), 1976, Prezenţe româneşti şi realităţi europene (Romanian Presences and European