Poetry
Romanțe pentru mai târziu
Not translated into English
Ion Minulescu · 1908
Synopsis
The collection brings together romances, poems in a sung form, some of which had appeared in a magazine as early as 1906. Andreea David notes in it fine seascapes and the motif of travel, which runs through the book; the author's sea poems are linked to Dobruja and the Black Sea. The tone is sentimental, sometimes burlesque, the language lively and abrupt, and the stanzas are cut in an apparently arbitrary way, which gives the verse a declamatory air.
Context
The book appeared in 1908, the year its author was editing the Revista celorlalți, one of the country's first avant-garde magazines according to the Metropolitan Museum; it is sometimes dated to 1909. According to the author, it went through four editions in the twenties, and was reprinted in large print runs from 1957, according to Andreea David. Eugen Lovinescu judged that this popularity and an apparent superficiality diminished its value; the word “minulescianisme” came of it, and Victor Eftimiu parodied it.
Who it is for
Poems to be spoken and sung, most of which became songs; no French translation of the collection.
Prizes and reception
Postmodern criticism has reread its ostentatious style as a deliberate irony, according to Romanian Literature Wiki.
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