Poetry
Vremea lerului
Not translated into English
George Meniuc · 1969
Synopsis
The early verse of a poet, written between 1937 and 1940 and long thought lost: the fourteen pieces of his first collection, Interior cosmic, and those he had scattered in the journals of the time. A poetry of ideas, descended from Symbolism, in which universal emotions stir in confusion, in which branches run a fever like snakes at sunset, and in which the Non-self falls in flakes, strange and elusive.
Context
The critic Simion Cibotaru found in the archives of Romania, at the National Library in Bucharest according to Emilian Galaicu-Păun, poems that their author believed lost; he gathered them in 1969 at the Cartea Moldovenească publishing house, signing again George, and no longer Gheorghe. For Galaicu-Păun, the collection restored to Bessarabian poetry the breath of the interwar period, brought its author back to the principles of his youth and marked the generation of 1968, Liviu Damian and Anatol Codru. Interior cosmic had been noticed by George Călinescu.
Who it is for
In Romanian; learned, abstract verse that calls for a reader familiar with Symbolism.
Prizes and reception
“One of the most original and most precious books of poetry in our literature”, according to the bio-bibliography of the Hasdeu library (1998).
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