Agata Asofroniei

First pages

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Adelina Lascu (Beldugan)

Love, death, jealousy, detailed psychological analysis of innerself, intimacy study, music, the sea, the exacerbated pride of the protagonist, superiority or inferiority complex, the lucidity with which he examines the experiences are central themes of Anton Holban's works. Some of them are uniquely developed in an obsessive manner in each novel. Undoubtedly, the underlying obsession with death stands at the basis of Holban's creations. Most of the characters have different views regarding death, depending on temperament or cultural level. This does not wonder anybody taking into consideration the concern about the death accounted along the years, which has become a topic of interest to most people not because of the mystery that it generates, but rather because what happens after the great crossing. The semantic field of death is present in most of Holban's works. Words like cemetery, grave, icons, funeral, sick, sickness, pain, suicide, body, and death are used obsessively.

Keywords: obsession, death, mystery, psychological analysis, love

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Florentina Gabriela Stroe (Didin)

In this article I intend to treat the problem of contradictions on which the main character from the novel Pădurea spânzuraților, Apostol Bologa, develops. I also took into consideration the trigger of all these antonymic attitudes, the light, treating the element both in terms of literary approach as well as in terms of representation of the limit situations. Apostol's convultions, though innermost, have a high degree of universality, becoming the exponent of an entire generation. The central idea of this article aimed at highlighting this protagonist's struggle to regain balance, despite the mixture of heterogeneous elements between soul and thought. Bologa's consciousness enters a new process of defining, through which he regains the primordial primary balance, of the beginnings.

Keywords: contradiction, conflict, light, obsession, universality

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Paula Andreea Onofrei

Based on the book of Evgheni Vodolazkin, "Laur" which revives the memory of the great Russian writers like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, we have analyzed the specificity of this Russian contemporary master of words in connection to Russian art, in an attempt to encapsulate the features of this culture regarded from two perspectives which complement each other, from our point of view: literature — the art of words and art —the poetry of colours and feelings.    

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Paula Andreea Onofrei

Given the fact that literature and arts are very much connected, we will focus our attention on the elements that are representative for the world of expression in these two fields, especially, insisting on the aesthetic criteria of Yves Michaud and "The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art" by Arthur Danto. Consequently, the focus of our present study will be the analysis of the same aesthetic criteria applied to two distinct, yet complementary fields: the art of words and the art of visual elements.