“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Lund University Romanian Language Institute, Bucharest SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES Vol. 4 No 1 (2021) ISSN 2003-0924 Cover: Florian Rares Tileaga, travel journalist & photographer, film and theatre critic, ISIA ski instructor, Web: www.pasiliberi.ro The cover photo was taken on April 20th, 2011 and represents the window to the reconstructed house of Fefeleaga in Bucium, Alba County, Romania SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES Vol. 4 No 1 (2021) ISSN 2003-0924 SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES Table of Contents Editorial ………………………………………………………………. 7 Introduction for contributors to Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies ………………………………………………………………… 10 Literature Alina Buzatu Genul (literar/ discursiv). Pagini de istorie conceptuală (I) / (Literary /discursive) genre. Pages of conceptual history (I) ……………………. 13 Lucreţia Pascariu „Astra. Roman epistolar” de Dito şi Idem – un caz de istorie literară/ “Astra. Epistolary novel” by Dito and Idem – a case of literary history … 26 Dan Horaţiu Popescu Pentru o istorie a P.E.N. Club-ului Român: 3/ For a History of the Romanian P.E.N. Club: 3 ........................................................................ 38 Brânduşa Juică, Virginia Popović, Marinel Negru Banatul, temă lirică în literatura română din Voivodina/ Banat as a lyric theme in Romanian literature in Vojvodina ……………………... 50 Cristina Hermeziu Le désir de langue. Les dimensions poétique et politique de la diglossie dans le roman « Le jardin de verre » de Tatiana Țîbuleac/ The desire for language. The poetic and political dimensions of diglossia in the novel “The Glass Garden” by Tatiana Țîbuleac ……… 64 Bianca-Maria Bucur Tincu The concept of bovarism illustrated by a postmodern prototype: Gheorghe Crăciun’s Pupa Russa ……………………………………… 75 Lucian Vasile Bâgiu Amândoi by Liviu Rebreanu: Multicultural settings and sources of suspense ……………………………………………………………….. 87 4 Vol. 4 No 1 (2021) SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES Translation studies Andra-Iulia Ursa The evolution of literary translations: a case study of the Romanian translation and retranslation of “A Little Cloud” ……………………… 111 Cultural studies Simona Lazăr Structuri sociale si identități etnice în epoca metalelor în sud-estul Europei / Social structures and ethnic identities in the metal age in South-eastern Europe ………………………………………………….. 126 Iulia Stoichiţ „Nu e cazul să ne dăm ceea ce nu suntem”. Spre o înţelegere a comunismului prin Bandiţii de Vasile Ernu / “It’s not the case to pretend to be something we are not”. Towards an understanding of communism through The Bandits by Vasile Ernu …………………….. 141 Mădălina Iacob Le musée de niche. Nouvel exploit dans la muséographie / The small museum. New exploitation in museography …………………………... 160 Felix Nicolau Memories from the future: constative and performed identities ………. 173 Linguistics Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković A Romanian 19th century document from the Vidin region …………... 187 Marcela Ciortea Gramatica limbii române în veșminte noi / Romanian grammar’s new clothes …………………………………………………………………. 199 Ileana-Manuela Raț Expresivitatea limbajului popular în romanul haiducesc „Iancu Jianu, zapciu de plasă” și „Iancu Jianu, căpitan de haiduci” de Nicolae D. Popescu / The expressivity of popular language in the hajduk novels ”Iancu Jianu, Head of Administration” and ”Iancu Jianu, Captain of the Hajduks” by Nicolae D. Popescu ………………………………….. 210 5 Vol. 4 No 1 (2021) SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES Book reviews Camelia Zăbavă Virgil Ierunca – Jurnalistul scriitor / Virgil Ierunca – a journalist and a writer …………………………………………………………………... 228 Mihaela Albu Frontiere și contacte. Studii culturale / Borders and contacts. Cultural studies …………………………………………………………………. 233 Contributors ……………………………………………….. 237 6 Vol. 4 No 1 (2021) SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES Editorial Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies promotes fresh views that explore models of Romanian identity within the framework of cross-cultural approaches. The journal is open to multidisciplinary and plurilingual contributions. Our scientific purpose is to endorse multi-faceted research and comparative views, without neglecting in-depth interpretations of literary, cultural, and scientific works and events. Between the covers of the current fourth volume, there are fifteen articles and two book reviews dedicated to first-hand inquiries examined against the backdrop of cogent evidence. An international team of contributors scrutinizes diversified instances, such as historical backgrounds of the Romanian language, the connection between language and mind, interlingual renditions, and the relation between language and society. Written in English, Romanian and French, these essays shape the contours of Romanian works of literature, translation studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. There can be no doubt that the complex field of Literature instigates unbounded judgements that dominate the discussions in the field of research. The present edition incorporates seven studies of this kind designed to bring forward insightful analyses of different literary works. Alina Buzatu, affiliated with the University of Constanța, introduces this section with a conceptualization of genre as an essential taxonomic tool for literature and the entire field of human discourse in an attempt to prove its versatility and adapting capacity. The section continues with Lucreția Pascariu’s study of how Carmen Sylva and Mite Kremnitz managed to use literary methods characteristic to the feuilleton novel when writing Astra. An epistolary novel. The literary collaboration between the two writers under the pseudonyms “Dito und Idem” was a real accomplishment in the 19th century in Romania and the whole European continent. The third study of this section coincides with the historical background of the Romanian P.E.N Club and is investigated by Dan Horațiu Popescu, from the Partium Christian University of Oradea. This study identifies itself with the third chapter in an intended piece of literary history, calling attention to the immediate aftermath of World War I. The collective work of Brânduşa Juică, Virginia Popović, and Marinel Negru embodies perspectives on some lyrical experiences in which the homeland – Banat -, is in the focus of some Romanian poets, belonging to different literary generations. In Romanian literature in Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, poetry is the favourite genre of writers, especially when it comes to the second half of the twentieth century. Further on, Cristina Hermeziu offers 7 Vol. 4 No 1 (2021) SWEDISH JOURNAL OF ROMANIAN STUDIES for consideration an analysis of the symbolic values of the dilemma between the Romanian language and the Russian language, which is at the heart of the diegesis of the novel Grădina de sticlă (The Glass Garden) by Tatiana Țîbuleac. This study casts some light on the different dimensions created by the author when describing the strife of a Moldovan orphan caught in a forced Russian political settlement, trying to rebuild herself between two languages and cultures. Bianca-Maria Bucur, a young researcher at 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba-Iulia, introduces the concept of bovarism, as defined by Jules de Gaultier at the end of the 19th century, and illustrated in Pupa russa, a postmodernist novel written by Gheorghe Crăciun. The paper that closes this distinct portion is elaborated by Lucian Vasile Bâgiu, from the Lund University of Sweden. This study examines Liviu Rebreanu’s novel Amândoi (Both) meticulously, in terms of archaisms and regional words used by incidental characters, notwithstanding their social status or aspirations. As part of the field of Translation studies, Andra-Iulia Ursa’s paper tackles the issue of translation and retranslation in a research based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of three Romanian renditions of one of the stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners— “A little cloud”. The volume continues with four Cultural Studies that focus on the in- depth examinations of archaeological data, museum studies, and overviews of communism. Simona Lazăr, a fellow member of the Institute for Researches in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, works down the line of theoretical models for different types of exchanges in the metal age in South-eastern Europe. Two different instances of communist society are investigated in this section. Iulia Stoichiț, from Transilvania University of Braşov, digs into criminality with The Bandits, Vasile Ernu’s second volume of a trilogy dedicated to marginal men, the world of thieves, of bandits, in a communist society, the narrator never becoming one of them. Felix Nicolau, associated with the University of Lund, tries to identify and analyse the sources of linguistics of dissimulation (constative and performative utterances) during the economic and political instability that affects the post- communist present, as well as to demystify certain stigmas unconditionally applied to Southeast European civilizations: corruption, laziness, negative Balkanization, frivolity and lack of consistency. Finally, Mădălina Iacob, from the West University of Timişoara, elaborates on the topic of the museum as a symbol of cultural practice in the contemporary era. Linguistics is a segment dedicated to the detailed examination of language. Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, from the Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade, brings to the readers’ attention an unpublished Ottoman era document in Romanian, issued in 1861 in Rabrovo, a village in the