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 Zalmoxis
: Obscure Pagan by Lucian
Blaga, Doris Platnus Runey (Translator), Keith Hitchins
(Introduction)
Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be
Romania’s most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth
century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are
well-aware of their importance, his work has remained, up to now, little
known in the English-speaking world. This book represents the one of the
first efforts to make Blaga’s work accessible to a wider audience.
Zalmoxis is Blaga’s first play and one of his most important literary
works. It underlines much of his philosophy. Blaga’s attachment to
Expressionist ideals is discernible in his treatment of the characters
primarily as vehicles of ideas and his preference for primitive nature
over the cultured metropolis. The book includes an introduction by Keith
Hitchins of the University of Illinois, one of the leading historians of
Romania in the United States and a scholar intimately acquainted with
Blaga’s life and work. In it, he discusses the importance of Blaga’s
life and work. The translation is by Doris Platnus-Runey from Wayne
State University in the United States.
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Dr R. T. Allen
A site for those interested in the work of Lucian
Blaga (1895-1960), Romanian philosopher and poet: bibliography,
translations, news, events and more.
Lucian Blaga is one of Romania's principal poets and
philosophers. Although there are translations and studies of his work
published in French and Italian, there has so far been little knowledge
of him in the English-speaking world. This web site is a personal
effort, with the co-operation of colleagues in Romania, to supply that
lack.
Site includes Time Line, Gallery, Translations
and Studies, including A
Blaga Anthology (philosophy, poems, aphorisms and other extracts)
available on CD
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Excerpt:
"Man's destiny is his
creation" said the writer. All his life was creation:
poetry, theater, philosophy.
He was the first poet given to us by
Transylvania after the 1918 Union. Born at May 9 in Lancram-Alba, priest
son. Curious for the young readers (specially for the children) is the
following: the future poet did not speak till the age of 4, being
"silent like a swan", as he said...
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Excerpt:
Thinker and poet, man of culture and artist, Lucian
Blaga has marked Romanian spirituality with his personality for more
than five decades. His works rise many problems, which are a continuous challenge
to literary and philosophical criticism, as he wrote more than 10 000
titles. His entire work - containing poetry, plays, essays, philosophy,
memoirs, aphorisms - reflect the modern tendencies of his time to render
ideas in an allusive and fluid language, in metaphorical shape, and to
reflect through this upon the position of man in the Universe...
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