ANATOL CIOCANU, „THE LOVER OF FIVE WRITING MACHINES”

Abstract

The poetry of Anatol Ciocanu, who ends the generation of , 60s, is examined in terms of the concepts of a solar poet, adolescent and romantic sentimentalism at its beginnings, and dramatism, tragedy in the stage of its maturity when it returns to a well-known tradition of the singing of our sufferings. The writer, the “child of the sun”, evolves in various roles, disguising himself in the young Telemah, voivode, son of emperor, peregrine, in Robinson “on the island of Patience” etc. In hymns, prayers and curses, ballads and sonnets there is a rhapsode that coveted life as a feast. In the most elaborated poems, one can notice the transposition by which the concrete is illuminated thanks to an extraordinary freedom of fantasy. The aesthetic value of the poetry lies in the way of reordering the elements of the world into a system of unrelated relationships established by the “creative fantasy” in a Rimbaldian manner. The game between appearances and essences, between “real” and “unreal” produces the effect of “sensory non-reality”, usually plasticized in folkloric colors, ritual actions and gestures, most of the time, all these dominated by the mioritic serenity of the lyrical character reconciled with the feeling of inexorable disappearance.

Keywords

• solar poet
• romantic sentimentalism
• adolescent vision
• euphoria
• candor
• spontaneity
• folklore style
• confession
• dramatic