Poetry
Frate al pământului
Not translated into English
Andrei Lupan · 1959
Synopsis
Verses on the earth and on the man who calls himself its brother: the life of the Moldavian village between the two wars, during the war and after it, with its torments and dramas; the fate of the peasant, the dignity and honesty of the people, peaceful work held to be the goal and the sign of a people. The language there blends the peasant spirit with the living forms of folk poetry.
Context
The collection appeared in 1959 from the Cartea moldovenească publishing house in Chișinău, and was reprinted in 1962 in a 372-page volume with a preface by George Meniuc. Mihai Cimpoi reads in it the poem of the earth and of man as the earth's “brother”, in rough, direct verse, objective in the manner of Coșbuc; he judges this poetry to be very ideologised, but successful where it spiritualises its images. The author himself, in a Mea culpa of 1956, had regretted the tribute paid to fools by a chattering versification.
Who it is for
In Romanian; verse of broad epic sweep, close to the popular tradition.
Prizes and reception
Reissued in 1962 and in 1986; Ana Globu took its title for the author's biobibliography, in 2006.