Poetry
Oglinzi fermecate
Not translated into English
Liviu Deleanu · 1927
Synopsis
Verses haunted by death and eternity, under funereal titles: the gravediggers of the dream, the passage of the dead, the white demons, the guardians of the graves, the resurrection of the clay. Good and evil, light and darkness clash in them, the real mingles with the imaginary, and in a heavy atmosphere of ghosts, tombs and night, an anguished self awaits a misfortune and asks its mother who is going to die that night.
Context
The collection appeared in 1927 in Iași, from the Goldner press. The National Museum of Romanian Literature in Chișinău notes in it the fin-de-siècle imagination, the imagery of Demostene Botez, the revolt of Aron Cotruș, the morbid note of Bacovia and the disquieting ugliness of Arghezi's Blesteme; Mihai Cimpoi finds in these early verses the sick time, the void and a macabre atmosphere peopled with devils. Botez spoke of poems of inner sensations, plastic like icons, and Enric Furtună, in 1930, of a handful of poems reflecting an adolescent soul troubled by visions. Ten years later, Ceasul de veghe drew the attention of George Călinescu.
Who it is for
In Romanian, a slim booklet of dark verse; a little Bacovia and Arghezi helps in hearing its tone.
Prizes and reception
The debut book of a poet regarded as a doyen of post-war Moldovan literature.
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